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D−Health Grade
Health in Fortune · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada

Health in Fortune trails almost every Canadian town

Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Newfoundland and Labrador as a whole reaches 52%. Closer to home, a hospital is 36 km from the average resident of Fortune, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Health gives Fortune a grade of D−.

44%very good or excellent health (region)78.6years, life expectancy (region)36 kmto a hospital, residents’ average
Very good or excellent health
44%
adults, age-standardised
Newfoundland and Labrador: 52% · Measured across the Eastern Rural Zone: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
24%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Newfoundland and Labrador: 21%
Smokers
17%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Newfoundland and Labrador: 15%
Life expectancy
78.6
at birth, 2022/2024
women 80.8 · men 76.4
Nearest hospital
36 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about health in Fortune

24%average share with the three conditions; typical town’s region 17%36 kmresidents’ average to a hospital; typical town 3.7 km78.6years of life expected; typical town’s region 81.517%of adults smoke; typical town’s region 12%

More chronic illness

For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 36% of adults, diabetes for 15%. Conditions and habits ↓

Far from a hospital

Distance is Fortune’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 36 km. Getting care ↓

Shorter lives in the region

Born around Fortune, a child can expect 2.9 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 18.9 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓

Smoking runs high

Around Fortune, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. 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.

Health Grade

Fortune 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.

Very good or excellent health (44%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (24%)Better than 1% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.6)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (36 km)Better than 6% of Canadian towns

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.

Conditions and habits

In the region, high blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%)

Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.

Conditions and weight · 2023/2024

High blood pressure
36%
Arthritis
42%
Diabetes
15%
Obese (self-reported)
48%
Mood disorder
16%

Habits · 2023/2024

Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
39%
Newfoundland and Labrador

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.

Getting care

From Fortune, a hospital is 36 km away on average

Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fortune’s own, not the region’s.

Hospital
36 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
48 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces

Residents of Fortune 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.

The wider area

Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador

Regional life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.

78.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.9
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador

Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024

Eastern Urban Zone80.2
Central Zone79.0
Eastern Rural Zone78.6
Western Zone78.5
Labrador-Grenfell Zone77.1

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

Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.9

The index is context and never graded: it describes Fortune’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.

Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.

For its deprivation

Barely ahead of regions as deprived

Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Fortune’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.

646872768084882345Eastern Urban Zone: 80.2 (women 82.1, men 78.2)Eastern Rural Zone: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.4)Central Zone: 79.0 (women 80.5, men 77.4)Western Zone: 78.5 (women 81.1, men 76.0)Labrador-Grenfell Zone: 77.1 (women 79.2, men 74.6)Prince Edward Island: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.1)Zone 1 - Western: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.6)Zone 2 - Northern: 79.3 (women 81.5, men 77.1)Zone 3 - Eastern: 78.8 (women 80.9, men 76.6)Zone 4 - Central: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.3)Zone 1 (Moncton area): 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Zone 2 (Saint John area): 79.3 (women 81.1, men 77.3)Zone 3 (Fredericton area): 80.1 (women 81.9, men 78.2)Zone 4 (Edmundston area): 79.1 (women 80.7, men 77.3)Zone 5 (Campbellton area): 79.0 (women 82.3, men 75.3)Zone 6 (Bathurst area): 80.2 (women 82.7, men 77.8)Zone 7 (Miramichi area): 78.9 (women 82.0, men 75.7)Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent: 81.7 (women 83.1, men 80.3)Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: 81.8 (women 83.2, men 80.4)Région de la Capitale-Nationale: 82.9 (women 84.7, men 81.1)Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec: 81.6 (women 83.3, men 79.9)Région de l'Estrie: 82.9 (women 84.8, men 81.0)Région de Montréal: 83.4 (women 85.5, men 81.2)Région de l'Outaouais: 80.7 (women 82.2, men 79.1)Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 79.5 (women 81.6, men 77.6)Région de la Côte-Nord: 79.4 (women 82.1, men 77.0)Région du Nord-du-Québec: 78.1 (women 78.5, men 77.6)Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: 79.9 (women 81.6, men 78.2)Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches: 82.8 (women 84.4, men 81.3)Région de Laval: 84.1 (women 85.7, men 82.4)Région de Lanaudière: 82.0 (women 83.7, men 80.3)Région des Laurentides: 82.2 (women 83.7, men 80.8)Région de la Montérégie: 82.5 (women 84.2, men 80.8)Région du Nunavik: 65.2 (women 70.3, men 60.7)Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James: 76.8 (women 79.1, men 73.1)The District of Algoma Health Unit: 77.9 (women 80.4, men 75.6)Brant County Health Unit: 80.4 (women 82.6, men 78.2)Durham Regional Health Unit: 82.6 (women 84.7, men 80.5)Grey Bruce Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.6, men 78.9)Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit: 79.6 (women 81.9, men 77.6)Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 79.0)Halton Regional Health Unit: 84.9 (women 86.5, men 83.2)City of Hamilton Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.5, men 79.0)Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit: 79.8 (women 81.8, men 77.8)Chatham-Kent Health Unit: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.3)Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: 81.8 (women 83.9, men 79.5)Lambton Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.2, men 77.8)Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.2)Middlesex-London Health Unit: 81.9 (women 84.2, men 79.6)Niagara Regional Area Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.6, men 77.6)Northwestern Health Unit: 73.7 (women 75.2, men 72.3)Huron Perth Health Unit: 81.7 (women 83.7, men 79.7)City of Ottawa Health Unit: 83.7 (women 85.7, men 81.6)Peel Regional Health Unit: 85.3 (women 87.2, men 83.3)Peterborough County—City Health Unit: 80.5 (women 82.8, men 78.1)Porcupine Health Unit: 77.3 (women 80.1, men 74.6)Renfrew County and District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.7)The Eastern Ontario Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.9)Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit: 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Sudbury and District Health Unit: 79.1 (women 82.0, men 76.3)Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 76.5 (women 79.0, men 74.1)Timiskaming Health Unit: 77.0 (women 80.3, men 73.6)Waterloo Health Unit: 82.8 (women 84.9, men 80.7)Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: 82.4 (women 84.5, men 80.2)Windsor-Essex County Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.5, men 79.2)York Regional Health Unit: 86.3 (women 87.9, men 84.6)Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit: 80.6 (women 83.0, men 78.2)City of Toronto Health Unit: 84.7 (women 87.2, men 82.0)Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.5)Prairie Mountain Health Region: 78.8 (women 81.2, men 76.6)Interlake-Eastern Health Region: 78.5 (women 81.3, men 76.0)Northern Health Region: 68.5 (women 70.5, men 66.9)Southern Health Region: 80.7 (women 82.9, men 78.7)Far North: 70.0 (women 72.8, men 67.3)North Central West: 76.6 (women 79.8, men 73.7)North Central East: 77.0 (women 79.6, men 74.5)Saskatoon: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.2)South West: 79.9 (women 82.5, men 77.5)South East: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.5)Regina: 80.2 (women 82.3, men 78.0)South Zone: 78.7 (women 80.6, men 76.8)Calgary Zone: 83.0 (women 85.0, men 80.9)Central Zone: 79.1 (women 81.7, men 76.6)Edmonton Zone: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Zone: 78.3 (women 80.9, men 76.1)East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: 80.5 (women 82.7, men 78.1)Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.8, men 76.5)Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area: 81.0 (women 84.1, men 78.2)Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area: 78.8 (women 81.8, men 76.0)Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area: 80.0 (women 82.9, men 77.2)Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area: 84.4 (women 86.6, men 82.1)Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area: 83.2 (women 85.8, men 80.7)Richmond Health Service Delivery Area: 86.8 (women 89.0, men 84.4)Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area: 83.3 (women 86.5, men 80.2)North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area: 84.3 (women 86.3, men 82.3)South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 82.7 (women 84.9, men 80.5)Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.8 (women 82.6, men 77.1)North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.3, men 76.9)Northwest Health Service Delivery Area: 77.0 (women 79.2, men 75.0)Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area: 76.6 (women 79.5, men 74.0)Northeast Health Service Delivery Area: 76.9 (women 79.5, men 74.4)Fortune’s region 78.6
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)

More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Fortune’s region fits it, 78.6 years at 3.7 against the line’s 78.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their 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.

Health survey

Self-rated health trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 42% very good or excellent, against 50%

The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).

Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024

Health very good or excellent
42%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
15%
Strong sense of belonging
76%
Satisfied with life
86%
Newfoundland and Labrador

Stress touches 15% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 56%, the province 54% (Newfoundland and Labrador).

Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.

Neighbours

Health in the places around Fortune

The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.

Grand Bank: Health Grade D−Grand BankFortune
ABCD
TownHospitalVery good healthLife exp.Health
Fortune36 km44%78.6D−
Grand Bank
6.2 km		33 km44%78.6D−

Every place around Fortune shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
  • Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Fortune alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
  • 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.
  • 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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.

Questions about health in Fortune

How far is Fortune from a hospital?

Beyond the hospital, the average home in Fortune is 48 km from a clinic and 6.0 km from a pharmacy.

How healthy is Fortune?

All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 24%.

What is the life expectancy in Fortune?

Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.8 for women, 76.4 for men around Fortune (2022/2024).

How is Fortune’s Health Grade worked out?

Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Fortune’s own distance to care, 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).