Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainOn health, Division No. 7, Subdivision M falls short of 98% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 44%, behind the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Division No. 7, Subdivision M, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Division No. 7, Subdivision M a grade of D−.
What stands out about health in Division No. 7, Subdivision M
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Division No. 7, Subdivision M’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 ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Division No. 7, Subdivision M is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Division No. 7, Subdivision M’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. Getting care ↓
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. 7, Subdivision M 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.
High blood pressure for 36% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 48% 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.
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
Life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador runs from 77.1 to 80.2; this region sits 3rd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Division No. 7, Subdivision M’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.
The nearest hospital is 20 km from the average home in Division No. 7, Subdivision M
Straight-line distances from each part of Division No. 7, Subdivision M, weighted by who lives there.
Division No. 7, Subdivision M is further out than the provincial norm of 8.5 km in Newfoundland and Labrador, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Division No. 7, Subdivision M’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.7 would be expected to reach 78.3 years, and Division No. 7, Subdivision M’s region is close, at 78.6. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.2 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.
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
For 15% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 56% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Newfoundland and Labrador’s 54%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Division No. 7, Subdivision M
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division No. 7, Subdivision M | 20 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision L 13 km | 15 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Clarenville 18 km | 2.0 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
| Division No. 7, Subdivision K 19 km | 8.2 km | 44% | 78.6 | D |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Division No. 7, Subdivision M from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Clarenville is the closest to care, 2.0 km to Division No. 7, Subdivision M’s 20 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Division No. 7, Subdivision M shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Division No. 7, Subdivision M
How far is Division No. 7, Subdivision M from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Division No. 7, Subdivision M live: 68 km to a clinic, 19 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Division No. 7, Subdivision M?
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 24%.
What is the life expectancy in Division No. 7, Subdivision M?
Women in Division No. 7, Subdivision M’s region live to 80.8 on average and men to 76.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Division No. 7, Subdivision M’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. 7, Subdivision M’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).