Photo: JohnHinks · CC BY-SA 3.0Expect 78.5 years of life in the region around Stephenville, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 52% in Newfoundland and Labrador. For Stephenville itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Stephenville a grade of C, #14 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,325 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stephenville
Smoking runs high
Around Stephenville, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 31% of adults, diabetes for 14%. Conditions and habits ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.6 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 78.5 years, Stephenville’s region outlives the 76.0 that regions scoring 4.3 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Stephenville 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: #14 of 32 in Newfoundland and Labrador and #2,325 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.5 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Stephenville’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Stephenville’s region, at 4.3, outlives the trend’s 76.0 years with 78.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Newfoundland and Labrador: 43% report obesity, 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 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
Mental health is no outlier: 56% say very good or excellent (Newfoundland and Labrador: 54%) and 19% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Stephenville, a hospital is 2.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Stephenville’s own, not the region’s.
Stephenville 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
The region comes 4th of 5 in Newfoundland and Labrador, where life expectancy runs from 77.1 to 80.2 years.
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 Stephenville’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Stephenville is 11th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,690 to 6,997 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 2 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 9 | Spruce Cliff AB A+ | 6,691 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 10 | Riverdale West ON B | 6,804 | 1.9 km | 53% |
| 11 | Stephenville NL C | 6,840 | 2.3 km | 47% |
| 12 | Bridgeland/Riverside AB A+ | 6,860 | 2.4 km | 56% |
| 13 | Hawthorn Meadows - Sheffield Glen ON A+ | 6,838 | 2.5 km | 56% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stephenville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stephenville | 2.3 km | 47% | 78.5 | C |
| Kippens 2.9 km | 5.2 km | 47% | 78.5 | C− |
| Stephenville Crossing 12 km | 10 km | 47% | 78.5 | C− |
| St. George's 15 km | 16 km | 47% | 78.5 | D |
One health region covers Stephenville and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. St. George's is the furthest from care, 16 km to Stephenville’s 2.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Stephenville itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Stephenville
What is the life expectancy in Stephenville?
There is no figure for Stephenville alone; its health region’s is 81.1 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Stephenville’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Stephenville: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Stephenville?
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 far is Stephenville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Stephenville is 216 km from a clinic and 1.1 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).