Photo: Magicpiano · CC BY-SA 3.054% of adults around Flatrock rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.2 years (82.1 for women, 78.2 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 15 km from the average resident of Flatrock, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Flatrock a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Flatrock
Far from a hospital
Distance is Flatrock’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.6 on the deprivation index typically live 82.2 years; Flatrock’s region, at 80.2, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Flatrock’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 22% report high blood pressure and 8.5% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Flatrock 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.
From Flatrock, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Flatrock, weighted by who lives there.
From Flatrock 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 2.0 years short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Flatrock’s region shows under the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.6, the expected figure is 82.2 years, and Flatrock’s region falls below with 80.2. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 81.7 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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 3.1 years ahead of the last at 77.1.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Flatrock itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.5%
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Newfoundland and Labrador: 36%, the province 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Self-rated health beats Newfoundland and Labrador: 54% 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 weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 54% in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 21% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Flatrock
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flatrock | 15 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Pouch Cove 6.4 km | 18 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Torbay 6.6 km | 9.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove 8.9 km | 8.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 15 km | 8.6 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| St. John's 18 km | 3.0 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Wabana 19 km | 0.9 km | 44% | 78.6 | C− |
Across a regional line, Wabana has its own figures: life expectancy 78.6, against 80.2 here. Wabana is the closest to care, 0.9 km to Flatrock’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Flatrock alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Flatrock
How far is Flatrock from a hospital?
Residents of Flatrock have a clinic 68 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.1 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Flatrock?
For the health region that includes Flatrock, women can expect 82.1 years and men 78.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Flatrock?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
How is Flatrock’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 Flatrock’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).