Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor health, Division No. 4, Subdivision E sits behind 93% 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 E apart within its region is distance: 34 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 64% of residents. Division No. 4, Subdivision E grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision E
Shorter lives in the region
Division No. 4, Subdivision E’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 ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Division No. 4, Subdivision E live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (41 km from its centre of population), and 64% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Division No. 4, Subdivision E takes a trip of 33 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 78.5 years, Division No. 4, Subdivision E’s region outlives the 76.0 that regions scoring 4.3 on the index typically reach. 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 E 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.
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
Among the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, from 77.1 to 80.2 years, this one is 4th.
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 E’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 E: 34 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Division No. 4, Subdivision E, weighted by who lives there.
From Division No. 4, Subdivision E 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.5 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Division No. 4, Subdivision E’s region comes out above the trend.
At 4.3 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 76.0 years, and the region Division No. 4, Subdivision E belongs to 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.
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
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 44% to 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
Asked about their mental health, 56% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Newfoundland and Labrador it was 54%, and 19% reported most days 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Division No. 4, Subdivision E’s own.
Questions about health in Division No. 4, Subdivision E
How far is Division No. 4, Subdivision E from a hospital?
A clinic is 210 km from the average resident of Division No. 4, Subdivision E and a pharmacy 33 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Division No. 4, Subdivision E?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.1 for women, 76.0 for men around Division No. 4, Subdivision E (2022/2024).
How healthy is Division No. 4, Subdivision E?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How is Division No. 4, Subdivision E’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Division No. 4, Subdivision E’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).