Health in Burgeo · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 78.5 years of life in the region around Burgeo, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.6 km from the average resident of Burgeo, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Burgeo is C.
Newfoundland and Labrador: 52% · Shared with the rest of the Western Zone: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Around Burgeo, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (14%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Less upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.6 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 44% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 78.5 years, Burgeo’s region outlives the 76.0 that regions scoring 4.3 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Burgeo grades C 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 (47%)Better than 20% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 20% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.5)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.6 km)Better than 98% 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 2.5 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Burgeo’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.3 on the index, the line expects 76.0 years; Burgeo’s region reaches 78.5. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 77.9 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 31% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
31%
Arthritis
32%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
42%
Newfoundland and Labrador
On weight the region is ordinary for Newfoundland and Labrador: 43% report obesity, the province 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
Health survey
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Newfoundland and Labrador (50%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
19%
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 19% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 0.6 km from the average home in Burgeo
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Burgeo’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
128 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
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, Burgeo is on the near side.
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.
78.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.9
more years expected at 65
4th
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
Of the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 77.1 and a high of 80.2.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.6
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.1
Situational vulnerability4.7
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Burgeo’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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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 Burgeo’s own.
Questions about health in Burgeo
How is Burgeo’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Burgeo’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Burgeo?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Burgeo’s health region only: 81.1 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Burgeo?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How far is Burgeo from a hospital?
Residents of Burgeo have a clinic 128 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.7 km away, in straight lines.
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