Photo: Shhewitt · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Lewisporte sits behind 89% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 54% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Newfoundland and Labrador’s 52%. Measured from where Lewisporte’s residents live, a hospital is 45 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. Health gives Lewisporte a grade of D, #22 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,496 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lewisporte
Far from a hospital
For 100% of homes in Lewisporte the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 45 km. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Lewisporte’s region sits 2.5 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 18.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 33% of adults, diabetes for 13%. Conditions and habits ↓
Smoking runs high
Around Lewisporte, 14% 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.
Lewisporte 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. Its place: #22 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,496 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
The nearest hospital is 45 km from the average home in Lewisporte
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lewisporte’s own, not the region’s.
Lewisporte is further out than the provincial norm of 8.5 km in Newfoundland and Labrador, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, where life expectancy runs from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Lewisporte’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.
33% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 13% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 46%, tops Newfoundland and Labrador (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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.2 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Lewisporte’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Lewisporte’s region, at 3.9, should live about 77.8 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and 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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Newfoundland and Labrador (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
On mental health the region is ahead of Newfoundland and Labrador, 59% very good or excellent to 54%; 11% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Lewisporte is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,349 to 3,461 people, median 5.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 38 | Electoral Area E (West Boundary), Kootenay Boundary BC B | 3,361 | 38 km | 55% |
| 39 | North Kawartha ON C− | 3,355 | 38 km | 47% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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 Lewisporte’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Lewisporte
How far is Lewisporte from a hospital?
For everyday care, Lewisporte’s residents are 0.8 km from a pharmacy and 0.8 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Lewisporte?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lewisporte’s health region only: 80.5 years for women and 77.4 for men (2022/2024).
How is Lewisporte’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Lewisporte’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Lewisporte?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).