Photo: Original Uploader was Sheldoncoles at 07:56, 17. Feb. 2007. · Public domainExpect 77.1 years of life in the region around St. Anthony, 4.4 under the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 60%, ahead of the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.8 km from the average resident of St. Anthony, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. St. Anthony grades C+ for health.
What stands out about health in St. Anthony
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around St. Anthony than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 17% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (26%) and diabetes (14%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 8.7 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (61% as answered). Health survey ↓
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.
St. Anthony 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.
High blood pressure for 26% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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
At 52%, self-reported obesity is above Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (31% against 23%).
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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Newfoundland and Labrador: 61% 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 beats Newfoundland and Labrador as well: 59% very good or excellent to 54%, with 12% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.2 years behind the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, St. Anthony’s, lies beneath the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of St. Anthony’s region’s: 77.1 years where the line expects 78.3 at 3.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 8 still live longer, with 78.5 years in the middle. Judged by income, around $116,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
The nearest hospital is 0.8 km from the average home in St. Anthony
Straight-line distances from each part of St. Anthony, weighted by who lives there.
St. Anthony is closer in 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
No region of the 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 80.2, a gap of 3.1 years.
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; St. Anthony’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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 St. Anthony’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in St. Anthony
What is the life expectancy in St. Anthony?
Women in St. Anthony’s region live to 79.2 on average and men to 74.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is St. Anthony?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 21%.
How is St. Anthony’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and St. Anthony’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is St. Anthony from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in St. Anthony is 112 km from a clinic and 0.9 km from a pharmacy.
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).