Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Around Mount Pearl, 54% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 82.1 and men to 78.2, 80.2 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Mount Pearl apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.3 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Mount Pearl a grade of B−, #2 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,032 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mount Pearl
Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 2.6, the trend across regions gives 82.2 years of life; Mount Pearl’s region reaches only 80.2. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Mount Pearl’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (8.5%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 5.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Mount Pearl is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
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.
Mount Pearl grades B− 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: #2 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,032 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 2.0 years short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Mount Pearl’s region shows under the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Mount Pearl’s region’s: 80.2 years where the line expects 82.2 at 2.6. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.7 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.
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
Top of the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador: the lowest figure is 77.1, 3.1 years below the highest.
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 Mount Pearl’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (8.5%)
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Newfoundland and Labrador: 36%, the province 42%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 5.3 km from the average home in Mount Pearl
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mount Pearl’s own, not the region’s.
From Mount Pearl that is nearer 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 54% 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 trails Newfoundland and Labrador: 49% very good or excellent to 54%, with 21% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Mount Pearl is 29th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 23,115 to 25,464 people, median 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-au-Récollet QC A | 25,464 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 2 | Cartierville QC A | 24,617 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Ouest (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 23,373 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 27 | Sept-Îles QC B | 24,483 | 4.6 km | 61% |
| 28 | Huntsville ON B+ | 23,948 | 4.9 km | 54% |
| 29 | Mount Pearl NL B− | 24,266 | 5.3 km | 54% |
| 30 | Port Perry ON B | 23,928 | 5.8 km | 50% |
| 31 | Waterdown ON B | 23,858 | 7.4 km | 53% |
| 40 | Essex ON B− | 23,872 | 22 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mount Pearl
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Pearl | 5.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Paradise 5.0 km | 9.8 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| St. John's 6.6 km | 3.0 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove 9.4 km | 7.1 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 10.0 km | 8.6 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Conception Bay South 13 km | 17 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove 16 km | 8.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Mount Pearl’s regional figures. Residents of Conception Bay South live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 5.3 km in Mount Pearl.
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.
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Mount Pearl alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Mount Pearl
How is Mount Pearl’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Mount Pearl’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Mount Pearl?
Women in Mount Pearl’s region live to 82.1 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Mount Pearl?
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 19%.
How far is Mount Pearl from a hospital?
A clinic is 55 km from the average resident of Mount Pearl and a pharmacy 1.0 km, as the crow flies.
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).