Expect 78.5 years of life in the region around Kippens, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 52% in Newfoundland and Labrador. For Kippens itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Kippens is C−.
What stands out about health in Kippens
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Kippens is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (14%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.6 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 4.3, the trend across regions gives 76.0 years of life; Kippens’ region reaches 78.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kippens 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 2.5 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Kippens’ dot is marked, above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.3, the expected figure is 76.0 years, and Kippens’ region does better with 78.5. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 77.9 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (31%) and diabetes (14%)
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is near Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%.
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.
Self-rated health trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 44% 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
Asked about their mental health, 56% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Newfoundland and Labrador it was 54%, and 19% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Kippens, a hospital is 5.2 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kippens’ own, not the region’s.
Residents of Kippens are closer 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.
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
Life expectancy in Newfoundland and Labrador runs from 77.1 to 80.2; this region sits 4th of the 5.
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 Kippens’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Kippens
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kippens | 5.2 km | 47% | 78.5 | C− |
| Stephenville 2.9 km | 2.3 km | 47% | 78.5 | C |
| Stephenville Crossing 15 km | 10 km | 47% | 78.5 | C− |
| St. George's 17 km | 16 km | 47% | 78.5 | D |
Around Kippens the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of St. George's live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 5.2 km in Kippens.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kippens itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Kippens
What is the life expectancy in Kippens?
For the health region that includes Kippens, women can expect 81.1 years and men 76.0 (2022/2024).
How is Kippens’ 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 Kippens’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Kippens?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How far is Kippens from a hospital?
Residents of Kippens have a clinic 219 km away on average and a pharmacy 3.6 km away, in straight lines.
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).