Health in Arnold's Cove · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Arnold's Cove trails almost every Canadian town
In the health survey, 44% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Newfoundland and Labrador’s 52%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Arnold's Cove live 45 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. The Health grade for Arnold's Cove is D−.
Newfoundland and Labrador: 52% · Shared with the rest of the Eastern Rural Zone: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
24%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
High blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Arnold's Cove’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 46 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Arnold's Cove, a child can expect 2.9 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 18.9 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Arnold's Cove than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% 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.
Health Grade
Arnold's Cove 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.
Very good or excellent health (44%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (24%)Better than 1% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.6)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (45 km)Better than 4% of Canadian towns
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.
Conditions and habits
36% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 15% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
36%
Arthritis
42%
Diabetes
15%
Obese (self-reported)
48%
Mood disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
39%
Newfoundland and Labrador
At 48%, self-reported obesity is above Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Arnold's Cove: 45 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Arnold's Cove’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
45 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
51 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
35 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Arnold's Cove is on the far side.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Regional life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.9
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Eastern Urban Zone80.2
Central Zone79.0
Eastern Rural Zone78.6
Western Zone78.5
Labrador-Grenfell Zone77.1
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, on a scale from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.2
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.7
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Arnold's Cove’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Arnold's Cove’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.7, the expected figure is 78.3 years, and Arnold's Cove’s region matches it closely with 78.6. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.2 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 42% very good or excellent, against 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
42%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
15%
Strong sense of belonging
76%
Satisfied with life
86%
Newfoundland and Labrador
Neither ahead nor behind Newfoundland and Labrador on mental health (56% to 54%), the region has 15% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Arnold's Cove alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Arnold's Cove
How far is Arnold's Cove from a hospital?
Residents of Arnold's Cove have a clinic 51 km away on average and a pharmacy 35 km away, in straight lines.
How is Arnold's Cove’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Arnold's Cove has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Arnold's Cove?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 24% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Arnold's Cove?
Women in Arnold's Cove’s region live to 80.8 on average and men to 76.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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