Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0On health, Glovertown falls short of 89% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 54% very good or excellent, against 52% in Newfoundland and Labrador. For Glovertown itself, the measure is access: 53 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 100% of homes beyond 30 km. Glovertown grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Glovertown
Far from a hospital
Residents of Glovertown live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (51 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Glovertown, a child can expect 2.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 18.9 (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: 33% report high blood pressure and 13% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Glovertown than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. 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.
Glovertown 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.
Getting to hospital from Glovertown: 53 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Glovertown’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Glovertown is on the far side.
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.
How the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, on a scale from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Glovertown’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 33% of adults in the region, diabetes for 13%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 46% 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.2 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Glovertown’s region’s dot is above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.9, Glovertown’s region would be expected to reach 77.8 years; it reaches 79.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 78.3.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Newfoundland and Labrador: 51% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Newfoundland and Labrador (59% against 54%), while 11% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Glovertown
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glovertown | 53 km | 54% | 79.0 | D |
| Gambo 15 km | 36 km | 54% | 79.0 | D |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Glovertown’s regional figures.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Glovertown shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Glovertown
How far is Glovertown from a hospital?
For everyday care, Glovertown’s residents are 2.5 km from a pharmacy and 2.5 km from a clinic on average.
How is Glovertown’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Glovertown’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Glovertown?
Women in Glovertown’s region live to 80.5 on average and men to 77.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Glovertown?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 22%.
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).