Grand BankNewfoundland and Labrador

Grand Bank scores below almost every Canadian town for health

The health survey and life expectancy numbers here cover the Eastern Rural Zone

The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 78.6, with women at 80.8 and men at 76.4. At 17%, the share of adults who smoke tops the 15% for Newfoundland and Labrador. Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure affect nearly a quarter of the region’s adults on average, higher than both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (22%) and Canadian towns (17%). The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 44%, behind the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador.

Measured against local pay, Grand Bank is cheaper to live in than nine in ten Canadian towns

Owners make up 84% of households, above Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (78%) and Canadian towns (74%) alike. 10% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (18%).

A quiet place for hazards: low wildfire, little earthquake risk, and 4% of tested homes over the radon guideline in Grand Bank’s area

Radon tests for the Eastern Regional Integrated Health Authority

For earthquakes Grand Bank is middling, $0.020 a year per $1,000 against $0.030 for the typical town. No one has filed a flood map for Grand Bank on the national inventory.

Trips to work from Grand Bank are shorter than from Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns or Canadian towns: 16 min on average

The car took 81% of commuters, below both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (92%) and Canadian towns (89%).

Grand Bank has cooler summers than Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns or Canadian towns: July highs of 18.8°C

Winter lows average −6.9°C in January, higher than both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (−8.7°C) and Canadian towns (−13.5°C). A normal January brings 54 cm of snow, the most of any month. For the wettest month, look to October: 162 mm on average.

Older than 98% of Canadian towns: half of Grand Bank is over 58.4

Immigrants make up 0.5% of residents, below both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (1.6%) and Canadian towns (6.4%).

Crime runs lighter where Grand Bank is policed than in Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns or Canadian towns, at an index of 54

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Grand Bank · Shared with the rest of the Harbour Breton detachment area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

Property crime in the area its police cover: 13.2 per 1,000 people a year. For violence alone, its police area’s index was 69, below Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (82) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Where it is policed, 12.5 violent incidents per 1,000 residents are recorded each year.

Expect November days around 8°C in Grand Bank, nights around 1°C

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Grand Bank forecast, on the Weather page. November normally sees 153 mm of precipitation. Looking ahead to December, expect highs near 3°C and lows near −4°C. Snow is normal by November, about 7 cm over the month.

Grand Bank’s MP is Jonathan Rowe (Conservative Party of Canada), for Terra Nova—The Peninsulas

Of the 7 Commons seats from Newfoundland and Labrador, the Liberal Party of Canada holds 4.

Grand Bank’s public library is Grand Bank Public Library

It stands 0.5 km from the centre of Grand Bank.

Only 0.5% of the land within 10 km of Grand Bank is protected

National parks are all over 100 km off. One protected area is close by. 2.8 km out lies the largest, Fortune Head Ecological Reserve, at 221 ha. A provincial park, Frenchman's Cove Provincial Park, lies 26 km away.

John Burke High School is the only school in and around Grand Bank

From the middle of town, the first elementary school is 23 km off, higher than both Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns (3.5 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km).

Before 1961: 36% of the homes in Grand Bank