Photo: James Cullin · CC BY-SA 3.0More long-term illness in Twillingate’s health region: 22% on the three conditions, the typical Canadian town 17%
Across the region, 54% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Newfoundland and Labrador as a whole manages 52%. What sets Twillingate apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Twillingate is C.
What stands out about health in Twillingate
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Twillingate runs 2.5 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 18.9 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Twillingate is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Twillingate 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.
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
Of the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 77.1 and a high of 80.2.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Twillingate’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
33% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 13% diabetes
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, 46%, tops 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. The anxiety disorder figure is the 2021/2022 estimate: Statistics Canada found the latest too unreliable to publish here.
1.2 more years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Twillingate’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Twillingate’s region beats it: 79.0 years against the 77.8 the trend gives a score of 3.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 78.3 years in the middle.
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.
Getting to hospital from Twillingate: 1.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Twillingate, 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, Twillingate is on the near 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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Newfoundland and Labrador (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 ahead of Newfoundland and Labrador, 59% very good or excellent to 54%; 11% 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 Twillingate
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twillingate | 1.9 km | 54% | 79.0 | C |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision H 9.7 km | 12 km | 54% | 79.0 | C− |
Around Twillingate the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Division No. 8, Subdivision H is the furthest from care, 12 km to Twillingate’s 1.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Twillingate itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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. 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Twillingate
What is the life expectancy in Twillingate?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Twillingate’s health region only: 80.5 years for women and 77.4 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Twillingate?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 22% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Twillingate from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Twillingate live: 16 km to a clinic, 2.2 km to a pharmacy.
How is Twillingate’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Twillingate’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).