Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainExpect 77.1 years of life in the region around Division No. 9, Subdivision C, 4.4 under the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. For Division No. 9, Subdivision C itself the measure is access, and it lags: 22 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Division No. 9, Subdivision C is C−.
What stands out about health in Division No. 9, Subdivision C
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Division No. 9, Subdivision C than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 17% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 19% of homes in Division No. 9, Subdivision C the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 26% report high blood pressure and 14% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.7 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 61%. Health survey ↓
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. 9, Subdivision C grades C− 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 (26%) and diabetes (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
At 52%, self-reported obesity is above Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (31% against 23%).
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.
From Division No. 9, Subdivision C, a hospital is 22 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Division No. 9, Subdivision C, weighted by who lives there.
From Division No. 9, Subdivision C 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.
Self-rated health beats Newfoundland and Labrador: 61% 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 59% rate it very good or excellent, against 54% in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 12% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The region lives 1.2 years less than its deprivation predicts
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s region sits below 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 Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s region falls below with 77.1. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 8 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.5 years. Households here earn around $116,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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.
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
Last of the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador: the highest figure is 80.2, 3.1 years above the lowest.
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. 9, Subdivision C’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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Two regions. About 15% of Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s residents live in Western Zone, a second health region; the page shows the region most residents live in.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Division No. 9, Subdivision C itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Division No. 9, Subdivision C
What is the life expectancy in Division No. 9, Subdivision C?
Women in Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s region live to 79.2 on average and men to 74.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Division No. 9, Subdivision C from a hospital?
For everyday care, Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s residents are 36 km from a pharmacy and 42 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Division No. 9, Subdivision C?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
How is Division No. 9, Subdivision C’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Division No. 9, Subdivision C: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).