For health, Clarke's Beach sits behind 98% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Newfoundland and Labrador as a whole reaches 52%. For Clarke's Beach itself the measure is access, and it lags: 22 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Clarke's Beach grades D− for health.
What stands out about health in Clarke's Beach
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 36% report high blood pressure and 15% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Clarke's Beach’s region sits 2.9 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 18.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Clarke's Beach than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Clarke's Beach the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 24 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Clarke's Beach 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Clarke's Beach’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Clarke's Beach, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Clarke's Beach, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Clarke's Beach 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Clarke's Beach’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
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 Clarke's Beach’s region matches it closely with 78.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 78.2 years in the middle.
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.
Self-rated health trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 42% very good or excellent, against 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Newfoundland and Labrador (56% against 54%), while 15% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Clarke's Beach
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clarke's Beach | 22 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M 7.1 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Bay Roberts 8.3 km | 16 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Spaniard's Bay 11 km | 12 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview 15 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Upper Island Cove 16 km | 8.5 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
| Holyrood 18 km | 31 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
The neighbours all sit in Clarke's Beach’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Upper Island Cove is the closest to care, 8.5 km to Clarke's Beach’s 22 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Clarke's Beach’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips 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.
Questions about health in Clarke's Beach
How far is Clarke's Beach from a hospital?
A clinic is 21 km from the average resident of Clarke's Beach and a pharmacy 3.5 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Clarke's Beach?
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 24% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Clarke's Beach?
For the health region that includes Clarke's Beach, women can expect 80.8 years and men 76.4 (2022/2024).
How is Clarke's Beach’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 Clarke's Beach’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).