Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOn health, Division No. 4, Subdivision A falls short of 93% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Division No. 4, Subdivision A live 30 km from a hospital on average, and 63% of them more than 30 km. The Health grade for Division No. 4, Subdivision A is D.
What stands out about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision A
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Division No. 4, Subdivision A, a child can expect 3.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 18.9 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Division No. 4, Subdivision A live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (25 km from its centre of population), and 63% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Division No. 4, Subdivision A, a pharmacy is 30 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.3, would put Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s region near 76.0 years; it reaches 78.5. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Division No. 4, Subdivision A 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 4th of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, where life expectancy runs from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Division No. 4, Subdivision A: 30 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s own, not the region’s.
From Division No. 4, Subdivision A that is further than the 8.5 km of the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 2.5 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s region comes out above the trend.
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; Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s region reaches 78.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 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.
31% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 14% diabetes
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 43% of adults against 42% for Newfoundland and Labrador.
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.
Self-rated health trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 44% 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
Mental health is no outlier: 56% say very good or excellent (Newfoundland and Labrador: 54%) and 19% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Division No. 4, Subdivision A shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision A
How far is Division No. 4, Subdivision A from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Division No. 4, Subdivision A is 169 km from a clinic and 30 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Division No. 4, Subdivision A?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s health region only: 81.1 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How is Division No. 4, Subdivision A’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 Division No. 4, Subdivision A’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Division No. 4, Subdivision A?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
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).