Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Paradise, 54% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 80.2 on average: 82.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024. Measured from where Paradise’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.8 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Paradise is C+, #6 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,096 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Paradise
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (2.6), Paradise’s region loses years: 80.2 where the trend says 82.2. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Paradise live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.6 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Paradise, a child can expect 1.3 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.4 (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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Paradise 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. Its place: #6 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,096 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 2.0 years behind the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Paradise’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Paradise’s region, at 2.6, should live about 82.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 80.2. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
From Paradise, a hospital is 9.8 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Paradise, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Paradise here: the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador is 8.5 km from a hospital and 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Newfoundland and Labrador
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Paradise’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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%)
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
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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 54% to 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
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Paradise comes 29th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (24,972 to 27,419 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Loyola QC A | 26,607 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 3 | Sault-au-Récollet QC A | 25,464 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 27 | Ebenezer East ON B+ | 27,031 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 28 | Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville QC A | 26,786 | 9.1 km | 55% |
| 29 | Paradise NL C+ | 26,155 | 9.8 km | 54% |
| 30 | Tecumseh ON B | 25,554 | 10 km | 52% |
| 31 | Kingsville ON B | 25,302 | 10 km | 52% |
| 40 | Enfield NS D− | 26,960 | 26 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Paradise
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paradise | 9.8 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Mount Pearl 5.0 km | 5.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 7.6 km | 8.6 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Conception Bay South 9.5 km | 17 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| St. John's 9.8 km | 3.0 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Wabana 13 km | 0.9 km | 44% | 78.6 | C− |
| Petty Harbour-Maddox Cove 14 km | 7.1 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Wabana’s life expectancy is 78.6, this region’s 80.2. Wabana is the closest to care, 0.9 km to Paradise’s 9.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Paradise itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Paradise
How is Paradise’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Paradise’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Paradise?
There is no figure for Paradise alone; its health region’s is 82.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Paradise from a hospital?
A clinic is 51 km from the average resident of Paradise and a pharmacy 1.7 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Paradise?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).