Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainHealth in Division No. 4, Subdivision B trails 94% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 47% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Newfoundland and Labrador’s 52%. What sets Division No. 4, Subdivision B apart within its region is distance: 43 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. Health gives Division No. 4, Subdivision B a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision B
A region where lives run shorter
Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s region sits 3.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 18.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 43 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Division No. 4, Subdivision B takes a trip of 41 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.3, would put Division No. 4, Subdivision B’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 B 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.
How the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador compare on life expectancy
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 4th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Division No. 4, Subdivision B: 43 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Division No. 4, Subdivision B, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Division No. 4, Subdivision B travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador is 8.5 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.5 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s region is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 4.3 at 76.0 years of life; Division No. 4, Subdivision B’s region does better, at 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.
High blood pressure for 31% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Newfoundland and Labrador (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 close to the province’s: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 54% in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 19% find most days quite stressful.
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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Division No. 4, Subdivision B alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision B
How far is Division No. 4, Subdivision B from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Division No. 4, Subdivision B is 212 km from a clinic and 41 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Division No. 4, Subdivision B?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.1 for women, 76.0 for men around Division No. 4, Subdivision B (2022/2024).
How healthy is Division No. 4, Subdivision B?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How is Division No. 4, Subdivision B’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 B’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).