Residency in Inverness, Nova Scotia

1 program lists Inverness as where they train in 2027 (R-1 match), at 1 school. They state 2 positions in all.

4,865
Population, 2021
about 4 h 30 min
Drive to a city of 100,000+
about 2 h 30 min drive
Airport with scheduled flights
8 h 37 min to 15 h 47 min
Shortest and longest day

1 program in 2027 · 1 school

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Inverness from above, with its houses, beach and golf links — Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0(opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons(opens in a new tab)

Key numbers for Inverness

Winter

−4.0 °CJanuary mean8 h 37 mindaylight on 21 Dec

2.1 days a year below −20 °C · 281 cm of snow a year

Daily means, 1991–2020 normals, Cheticamp, 53.9 km away (more than 50 km, so it may differ from the town).

Snowfall: Sydney, 96.3 km away (more than 50 km, so it may differ from the town).

Summer

18.8 °CJuly mean15 h 47 mindaylight on 21 Jun

Daily means, 1991–2020 normals, Cheticamp, 53.9 km away (more than 50 km, so it may differ from the town).

Drive to a city of 100,000+

about 4 h 30 minby road

To Halifax, 340 km. A free-flow estimate: no traffic, weather or ferry waits.

Notice: 4 h or more by road to a city of 100,000+.

Airport with scheduled flights

about 2 h 30 minby road

To Sydney / J.A. Douglas McCurdy Airport (YQY), 96.4 km away in a straight line.

Notice: 90 min or more by road to the airport.

Rent vs PGY-1 pay

not published for this area

CMHC’s rent survey has no one-bedroom figure for an area that names only Inverness. Ask the program or the school about housing.

Ochre marks a figure past a fixed line below, and nothing else. Places are not compared with each other.

The lines: under 8 h of daylight on 21 Dec; 17 h or more on 21 Jun; 30 or more days a year below −20 °C; 4 h or more by road to a city of 100,000+; 90 min or more by road to the airport; rent at 30% or more of gross PGY-1 pay.

Programs in Inverness

2027 programs whose location label names Inverness, grouped by match, disciplines A to Z.

R-1 match 1 program

Inverness - Cape Breton - Family Medicine
Dalhousie UniversityCMG stream
2 positions · 2 yrs

Living in Inverness

Public statistics for this place, each with its source and reference period. They describe the place, not any program. Check each source before you rely on it.

Where it is and getting around

Map of the area around Inverness, with dashed rings 10 km and 50 km from the centre and the airport YQY marked. — The dashed rings are 10 km and 50 km from the centre of the place. This is a picture, not a live map.
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: YQY, 96 km away in a straight line.
Open on the map (the map page, with this province selected)

Drive times are free-flow estimates on roads from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL), rounded: no traffic, weather or ferry waits.

Nearest population centre of 100,000 or more: Halifax had 348,634 people in 2021 247 km in a straight line.
Nearest airport with scheduled flights: 168.2 km by road Scheduled service as listed by OurAirports; check the airport for current routes.

Weather and daylight

Average temperature, °C

Daily mean, 1991–2020 normals at Cheticamp, 53.9 km away (more than 50 km, so it may differ from the town).

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Monthly climate normals, 1991–2020, from Cheticamp and Sydney
Month	Average temperature (°C)	Snowfall (cm)	Days below −20 °C
January	−4.0	77.6	0.5
February	−5.1	68.0	1.3
March	−1.7	44.7	0.4
April	3.4	22.9	0.0
May	9.0	1.5	0.0
June	14.4	0.0	0.0
July	18.8	0.0	0.0
August	18.7	0.0	0.0
September	15.0	0.0	0.0
October	9.7	0.4	0.0
November	5.0	9.2	0.0
December	0.2	56.8	0.0
Whole year	6.9	281.1	2.1

Hours of daylight

Sunrise to sunset on the 15th of each month, computed from the latitude (46.23° N). Hills and cloud are not counted.

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Daylight, sunrise to sunset, computed from latitude
Day	Daylight
January 15	8 h 59 min
February 15	10 h 19 min
March 15	11 h 49 min
April 15	13 h 30 min
May 15	14 h 56 min
June 15	15 h 46 min
July 15	15 h 28 min
August 15	14 h 14 min
September 15	12 h 38 min
October 15	11 h 01 min
November 15	9 h 29 min
December 15	8 h 39 min
21 Dec, shortest day	8 h 37 min
21 Jun, longest day	15 h 47 min

Things to do nearby

Places mapped in OpenStreetMap within a set distance of the town centre. A count, not a rating.

In town, within 10 km

1park
none mappedfor playgrounds
none mappedfor ice rinks
none mappedfor swimming pools with a name
none mappedfor climbing places
none mappedfor libraries
1museum
none mappedfor theatres
none mappedfor cinemas
none mappedfor arts centres
none mappedfor music venues
none mappedfor markets

Outdoors, within 50 km

36protected areas with a name
25nature reserves with a name
15lakes with a name
48beaches
17campsites
none mappedfor ski areas
6golf courses

Protected and conserved areas on the official list within 50 km: 28.

Nearest mapped ski area: Ben Eoin, 73 km in a straight line.

On foot and by bike, within 25 km

69 kmof footpaths
69 kmof signed hiking and bike routes

Lengths of mapped paths and signed routes follow how much has been mapped locally more than how much trail there is.

Counts what volunteers have mapped, not everything that exists; small and northern towns are often under-mapped, so “none mapped” is not “none”.

Map data from OpenStreetMap (opens in a new tab), available under the Open Database License (opens in a new tab).

People

2021 Census. Figures are for the municipality of Inverness, Subd. B, not the metropolitan area. Statistics Canada rounds counts, so small places are approximate.

Age

Median age 54.0. People aged 20 to 39: 16.2%.

0 to 14 13.6%
15 to 64 54.7%
65 and over 31.8%

Municipality of Inverness, Subd. B, 2021 Census.

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Age of residents, 2021 Census
Age group	Share of residents
0 to 14	13.6%
15 to 64	54.7%
65 and over	31.8%
20 to 39 (inside 15 to 64)	16.2%
Median age	54.0 years

Immigrants: 3.9% of residents arrived 2016–2021: 0.5% · non-permanent residents: 0.8%
Indigenous identity: 2.1% of residents
How people commute: car, truck or van 90.9% · public transit 1.2% · walking or cycling 5.0% · other 2.9% Average commute: 19.2 minutes. Shares are of people who commute.The way Canadians commute was altered in 2021 by the pandemic, with lockdowns to slow the spread of COVID-19 and changes in how and where Canadians worked leading to 2.8 million fewer commuters, compared with five years earlier. Statistics Canada, The Daily, 30 Nov 2022(opens in a new tab)
Median household income: $65,000 before tax $58,000 after tax · income year 2020, in 2020 dollars

Rural context, housing and work

Each figure names the area it covers. A missing line means the source publishes nothing for this area. These describe the place, not every site a program trains in.

Population centre: Inverness, a small population centre (1,000 to 29,999 people) 1,228 people in 2021
Remoteness index: 0.441 0 is least remote, 1 is most remote. Statistics Canada calls this index experimental.
Basic cost of living: $51,917 a year Market Basket Measure 2025, Nova Scotia, population under 30,000, for two adults with two children. A modest, basic basket (the poverty line), not a resident’s budget. A size-class region is not the town itself.

Sources and licences

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files.
Computed from latitude.
Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canadian Protected and Conserved Areas Database (December 2025). Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
Data Source: Environment and Climate Change Canada (Canadian Climate Normals 1991-2020).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Index of Remoteness (17-26-0001), 2021. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0011-01, and the 2021 Census Cartographic Boundary Files. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 11-10-0066-01 Market Basket Measure (MBM) thresholds for the reference family by Market Basket Measure region, component and base year, 2025. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Map data from OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
Airport data from OurAirports (public domain).
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0011-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and population centres, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population, table 98-10-0022-01. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0002-01 Population and dwelling counts: Canada and census subdivisions (municipalities), 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0057-01 Household income statistics by household type: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0173-01 Mother tongue by knowledge of official languages: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0266-01 Indigenous identity by Registered or Treaty Indian status: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0307-01 Immigrant status and period of immigration by place of birth: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Adapted from Statistics Canada, Table 98-10-0458-01 Main mode of commuting by commuting duration, time leaving for work, age and gender: Canada, provinces and territories, census divisions and census subdivisions, 2021 Census. This does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada of this product.
Photographs: Wikimedia Commons. Each photo is credited under it with its author and licence (CC0, CC BY, CC BY-SA or public domain). Resized and re-encoded as WebP; not cropped.
Map data from OpenStreetMap (https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright), available under the Open Database License (ODbL).
Airport data from OurAirports (public domain).

Across Nova Scotia

A page for each specialty trained in Inverness lists its programs across Nova Scotia, school by school.

Family Medicine in Nova Scotia

Nearby places

Places with a page within 300 km of Inverness in a straight line, nearest first; not a driving distance.

Cape BretonNova Scotia · about 100 km
CharlottetownPrince Edward Island · about 140 km
HalifaxNova Scotia · about 245 km
MonctonNew Brunswick · about 270 km
KentvilleNova Scotia · about 280 km

Other places in Nova Scotia 4

Places with a page, A to Z.

A program’s streams share one row, and a quota two of its streams both state is counted once in the totals. Positions are the quotas each program page states; a program that states none is not counted as zero. CdnMD is independent of CaRMS: confirm everything on carms.ca (opens in a new tab).