Photo: Haydn Blackey · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 54% of adults in Pouch Cove’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 80.2 years (82.1 for women, 78.2 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Pouch Cove apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 18 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Pouch Cove is C+.
What stands out about health in Pouch Cove
Far from a hospital
Distance is Pouch Cove’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 2.6, the trend across regions gives 82.2 years of life; Pouch Cove’s region reaches only 80.2. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Pouch Cove’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 ↓
Long-term conditions run high
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.
Pouch Cove 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.
From Pouch Cove, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pouch Cove’s own, not the region’s.
From Pouch Cove that is further 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 2.0 years behind the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Pouch Cove’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.6 about 82.2 years of life. Pouch Cove’s region falls short of it, at 80.2. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
No region of the 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 77.1, a gap of 3.1 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Pouch Cove’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
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
Self-reported obesity, 36%, trails 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.
Self-rated health beats Newfoundland and Labrador: 54% 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
On mental health the region is behind Newfoundland and Labrador, 49% very good or excellent to 54%; 21% 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.
Health in the places around Pouch Cove
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouch Cove | 18 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Flatrock 6.4 km | 15 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Torbay 12 km | 9.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | C+ |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove 15 km | 8.3 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 18 km | 8.6 km | 54% | 80.2 | B− |
| Wabana 19 km | 0.9 km | 44% | 78.6 | C− |
Across a regional line, Wabana has its own figures: life expectancy 78.6, against 80.2 here. Wabana is the closest to care, 0.9 km to Pouch Cove’s 18 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Pouch Cove shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Pouch Cove
How far is Pouch Cove from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Pouch Cove live: 68 km to a clinic, 2.5 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Pouch Cove?
For the health region that includes Pouch Cove, women can expect 82.1 years and men 78.2 (2022/2024).
How is Pouch Cove’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Pouch Cove has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Pouch Cove?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
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).