Photo: Patrick Tomasso impatrickt · CC0More smokers around Bancroft: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
In the health survey, 45% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Bancroft live 4.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Bancroft a grade of C−, #829 of 866 in Ontario and #2,400 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bancroft
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Bancroft, a child can expect 1.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 6.7 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 43% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (28%) and diabetes (11%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Bancroft at 4.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bancroft 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: #829 of 866 in Ontario and #2,400 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Ontario, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 26th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Bancroft itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 43% to 51%
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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (47% against 51%), while 27% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 39%, the province 30%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 17%.
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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Bancroft’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Bancroft belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.2 predicts: 79.8 years, the trend 80.0. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 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.
The nearest hospital is 4.0 km from the average home in Bancroft
Straight-line distances from each part of Bancroft, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Bancroft goes.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Bancroft is 20th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,259 to 4,401 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Invermere BC B+ | 4,305 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 18 | Tuxedo MB B+ | 4,295 | 3.9 km | 52% |
| 19 | Winston Heights/Mountview AB A+ | 4,361 | 3.9 km | 56% |
| 20 | Bancroft ON C− | 4,331 | 4.0 km | 45% |
| 21 | Red Lake ON C | 4,285 | 4.0 km | 44% |
| 22 | Beresford NB B− | 4,389 | 5.6 km | 49% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bancroft
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bancroft | 4.0 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
| Faraday 11 km | 7.3 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
| Hastings Highlands 13 km | 13 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
| Carlow/Mayo 18 km | 22 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: Bancroft and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Carlow/Mayo is the furthest from care, 22 km to Bancroft’s 4.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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 Bancroft’s own.
Questions about health in Bancroft
How healthy is Bancroft?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Bancroft?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Bancroft’s health region only: 81.8 years for women and 77.8 for men (2022/2024).
How is Bancroft’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Bancroft has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Bancroft from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bancroft’s residents are 3.6 km from a pharmacy and 3.3 km from a clinic on average.
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).