Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/naturallight/ Leslie Philipp · CC BY 2.0Health in Taloyoak trails almost every Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Nunavut: 39% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 39%. Closer to home, a hospital is 454 km from the average resident of Taloyoak, and 100% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Taloyoak is D−.
What stands out about health in Taloyoak
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Taloyoak is well above the typical town’s; 59% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Taloyoak runs 10.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 16.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 12.4 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 42%. Health survey ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Taloyoak’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 454 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Taloyoak 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%
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, 32%, sits within a few points of Nunavut (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.
One region, one figure: 70.9 years of life
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.
Self-rated health much as in Nunavut: 42% to 42%
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
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.
Getting to hospital from Taloyoak: 454 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Taloyoak’s own, not the region’s.
That is further than 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.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Taloyoak alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Taloyoak
How healthy is Taloyoak?
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.
What is the life expectancy in Taloyoak?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Taloyoak’s health region only: 72.4 years for women and 69.4 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Taloyoak from a hospital?
A clinic is 1,198 km from the average resident of Taloyoak and a pharmacy 751 km, as the crow flies.
How is Taloyoak’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Taloyoak has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).