Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor health, Richmond County, Subdivision B sits behind 94% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Nova Scotia: 49% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 48%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Richmond County, Subdivision B live 37 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. Health gives Richmond County, Subdivision B a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Richmond County, Subdivision B
A long way to hospital
Distance is Richmond County, Subdivision B’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 37 km. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Richmond County, Subdivision B runs 2.7 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.1 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (30%) and diabetes (11%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Richmond County, Subdivision B than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Richmond County, Subdivision B grades D for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
The region’s four figures and the town’s distance to a hospital are each ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more, then averaged.
How the grade works
Health is graded as a regional score, labelled as such: very good or excellent self-rated health, chronic conditions (arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure averaged) and smoking from the Canadian Community Health Survey, each age-standardised so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, and life expectancy at birth, all for the health region. The residents’ average distance to a hospital is the one input measured for the town itself, so towns in one region can still differ.
The nearest hospital is 37 km from the average home in Richmond County, Subdivision B
Straight-line distances from each part of Richmond County, Subdivision B, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Richmond County, Subdivision B is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in Nova Scotia, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Longest and shortest lives among the 4 regions in Nova Scotia
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Nova Scotia, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
No region of the 4 in Nova Scotia has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 81.4, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Richmond County, Subdivision B itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
30% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Nova Scotia: 45%, the province 39%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.7 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Richmond County, Subdivision B’s region is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.0 on the index, the line expects 77.1 years; Richmond County, Subdivision B’s region reaches 78.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 77.8 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, 2022/2024, by health region. Deprivation: Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021 (situational vulnerability), averaged over each region’s towns by their residents; income: 2021 Census median household income, averaged the same way. The averages and the line are TownRatings calculations.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Nova Scotia: 48% and 47%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health beats Nova Scotia as well: 51% very good or excellent to 48%, with 24% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Richmond County, Subdivision B
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richmond County, Subdivision B | 37 km | 49% | 78.8 | D |
| Richmond County, Subdivision A 19 km | 17 km | 49% | 78.8 | D |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Richmond County, Subdivision B’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Richmond County, Subdivision A live nearer a hospital, at 17 km against 37 km in Richmond County, Subdivision B.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Richmond County, Subdivision B’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Richmond County, Subdivision B
How far is Richmond County, Subdivision B from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 26 km from the average resident of Richmond County, Subdivision B, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Richmond County, Subdivision B?
Women in Richmond County, Subdivision B’s region live to 80.9 on average and men to 76.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Richmond County, Subdivision B?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 21% of adults.
How is Richmond County, Subdivision B’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Richmond County, Subdivision B’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).