Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 2.5Smoking runs high around Barry's Bay: 16% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.0 km from the average resident of Barry's Bay, further than the usual 3.7 km. Barry's Bay grades C+ for health, #767 of 866 in Ontario and #2,222 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Barry's Bay
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 27% report high blood pressure and 10% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (3.4), Barry's Bay’s region gains years: 81.0 where the trend says 79.2. For its deprivation ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Barry's Bay 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: #767 of 866 in Ontario and #2,222 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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.8 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Barry's Bay’s region is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Barry's Bay’s region, at 3.4, outlives the trend’s 79.2 years with 81.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 79.1 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (27%) and diabetes (10%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
From Barry's Bay, a hospital is 7.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Barry's Bay’s own, not the region’s.
From Barry's Bay that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 3.4 km, while the average resident is 7.0 km away.
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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 18th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Barry's Bay’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
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 looks better than in the province too: 55% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 21% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Barry's Bay is 27th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,089 to 4,210 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 2 | Sunalta AB A+ | 4,151 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 3 | Balfour ON B | 4,171 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 25 | Merivale Gardens - Grenfell Glen - Pineglen - Country Place ON A | 4,172 | 6.5 km | 56% |
| 26 | Westphal NS B | 4,201 | 6.7 km | 51% |
| 27 | Barry's Bay ON C+ | 4,151 | 7.0 km | 50% |
| 28 | Island Lakes MB B | 4,148 | 7.1 km | 52% |
| 29 | Fort Nelson BC C | 4,144 | 8.1 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lac-Etchemin QC B | 4,089 | 31 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Barry's Bay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barry's Bay | 7.0 km | 50% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards 19 km | 20 km | 50% | 81.0 | C− |
Same region, same survey: Barry's Bay’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 7.0 km in Barry's Bay.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Barry's Bay shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Barry's Bay
How is Barry's Bay’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Barry's Bay’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Barry's Bay?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
How far is Barry's Bay from a hospital?
Residents of Barry's Bay have a clinic 7.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 6.7 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Barry's Bay?
Women in Barry's Bay’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 78.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).