Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/naturallight/ Leslie Philipp · CC BY 2.0For health, Naujaat sits behind almost every Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 39%; Nunavut as a whole is at 39%. Closer to home, a hospital is 497 km from the average resident of Naujaat, and 100% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Naujaat is D−.
What stands out about health in Naujaat
A region that smokes more
Around Naujaat, 59% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Naujaat, a child can expect 10.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 16.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 12.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (42% as answered). Health survey ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Naujaat’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 497 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Naujaat 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.
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 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 5%
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Nunavut: 32%, the province 32%.
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.
Life expectancy in the region: 70.9 years
Regional life expectancy in Nunavut, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Nunavut (42%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Stress touches 15% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 43%, the province 43% (Nunavut).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Naujaat, a hospital is 497 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Naujaat’s own, not the region’s.
Most places are nearer: 3.7 km for 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Naujaat’s own.
Questions about health in Naujaat
How healthy is Naujaat?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Naujaat?
There is no figure for Naujaat alone; its health region’s is 72.4 for women and 69.4 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Naujaat from a hospital?
Residents of Naujaat have a clinic 951 km away on average and a pharmacy 498 km away, in straight lines.
How is Naujaat’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Naujaat’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). 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).