Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Health in Pasadena trails 92% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 52% in Newfoundland and Labrador. Measured from where Pasadena’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 26 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Pasadena grades D for health, #25 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,531 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pasadena
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Pasadena runs 3.0 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 18.9 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Pasadena the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 26 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Pasadena takes a trip of 22 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.3, would put Pasadena’s region near 76.0 years; it reaches 78.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Pasadena 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: #25 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,531 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.
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
Ranked 4th of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador: the regions span 77.1 to 80.2 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Pasadena itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Pasadena, a hospital is 26 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Pasadena, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town in Newfoundland and Labrador and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Pasadena is on the far side.
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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 2.5 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Pasadena’s region shows above the trend.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 4.3, Pasadena’s region would be expected to reach 76.0 years; it reaches 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.
High blood pressure for 31% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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 is close to the province’s level, 43% 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. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 44% 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Newfoundland and Labrador (56% against 54%), while 19% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Pasadena is 39th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,842 to 4,020 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | Leila North MB B+ | 3,966 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Fort Macleod AB B | 3,945 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 37 | Colchester County, Subdivision A NS D− | 3,891 | 25 km | 42% |
| 38 | Electoral Area J, Central Kootenay BC B | 3,915 | 25 km | 55% |
| 39 | Pasadena NL D | 3,930 | 26 km | 47% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
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
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Pasadena 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Pasadena
How far is Pasadena from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Pasadena is 142 km from a clinic and 22 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Pasadena?
Women in Pasadena’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Pasadena?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Pasadena’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Pasadena’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).