Photo: https://www.flickr.com/photos/rebfoto/ Emile Baddour · CC0For health, Holyrood sits behind 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%. Measured from where Holyrood’s residents live, a hospital is 31 km away on average and 77% of them are over 30 km out. Holyrood grades D− for health.
What stands out about health in Holyrood
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (36%) and diabetes (15%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Holyrood live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (30 km from its centre of population), and 77% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Holyrood’s region sits 2.9 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 18.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Holyrood is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. 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.
Holyrood 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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
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.
From Holyrood, a hospital is 31 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Holyrood’s own, not the region’s.
From Holyrood 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Holyrood’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Holyrood’s region shows close to the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Holyrood’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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 42% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is close to the province’s: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 54% in Newfoundland and Labrador, and 15% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Holyrood is 38th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,715 to 2,779 people, median 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 3 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 36 | Plessisville QC B+ | 2,718 | 24 km | 61% |
| 37 | Electoral Area I, Central Kootenay BC B | 2,758 | 25 km | 55% |
| 38 | Holyrood NL D− | 2,749 | 31 km | 44% |
| 39 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L NL D | 2,724 | 34 km | 54% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Holyrood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holyrood | 31 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Harbour Main-Chapel's Cove-Lakeview 3.3 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Division No. 1, Subdivision M 16 km | 29 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
| Conception Bay South 16 km | 17 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Clarke's Beach 18 km | 22 km | 44% | 78.6 | D− |
Conception Bay South falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 80.2 against 78.6 here.
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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Holyrood’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Holyrood
How far is Holyrood from a hospital?
For everyday care, Holyrood’s residents are 3.1 km from a pharmacy and 30 km from a clinic on average.
How is Holyrood’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Holyrood has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Holyrood?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 24%.
What is the life expectancy in Holyrood?
For the health region that includes Holyrood, women can expect 80.8 years and men 76.4 (2022/2024).
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).