Photo: Ryan Hodnett · CC BY-SA 4.0Bay Roberts scores below 96% of Canadian towns for health
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 44% very good or excellent, against 52% in Newfoundland and Labrador. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Bay Roberts’ is long: 16 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Bay Roberts is D−, #28 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,565 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bay Roberts
A heavier load of illness
High blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Bay Roberts, 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 ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Bay Roberts than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Bay Roberts’ own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Bay Roberts 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. Its place: #28 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,565 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
High blood pressure for 36% of adults in the region, diabetes for 15%
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
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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
Regional life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador runs from 77.1 to 80.2; this region sits 3rd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Bay Roberts’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Bay Roberts, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bay Roberts’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Bay Roberts is on the far side.
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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Bay Roberts’ region shows close to the trend.
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 Bay Roberts’ region matches it closely with 78.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (6 of 10, median 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 42% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 56% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Newfoundland and Labrador’s 54%, with 15% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Bay Roberts is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,328 to 6,492 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 33 | Munster - Ashton ON A | 6,372 | 14 km | 56% |
| 34 | Osgoode - Vernon ON A− | 6,398 | 16 km | 56% |
| 35 | Bay Roberts NL D− | 6,407 | 16 km | 44% |
| 36 | St. Paul County No. 19 AB D | 6,462 | 18 km | 48% |
| 37 | Antigonish County, Subdivision B NS D | 6,486 | 18 km | 49% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bay Roberts
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bay Roberts | 16 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Spaniard's Bay 3.6 km | 12 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Upper Island Cove 8.0 km | 8.5 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
| Clarke's Beach 8.3 km | 22 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Harbour Grace 11 km | 4.9 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M 15 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Carbonear 17 km | 1.4 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Bay Roberts’ regional figures. Carbonear is the closest to care, 1.4 km to Bay Roberts’ 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bay Roberts itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Bay Roberts
How healthy is Bay Roberts?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 24%.
What is the life expectancy in Bay Roberts?
For the health region that includes Bay Roberts, women can expect 80.8 years and men 76.4 (2022/2024).
How far is Bay Roberts from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bay Roberts’ residents are 2.2 km from a pharmacy and 26 km from a clinic on average.
How is Bay Roberts’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Bay Roberts: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).