Photo: Ashtabula Archive · Public domain49% of adults around Bayham rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 80.6 on average: 83.0 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Bayham apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 16 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Bayham grades C+ for health, #741 of 866 in Ontario and #2,171 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bayham
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Bayham the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Bayham’s neighbourhoods average 4.5 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bayham 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: #741 of 866 in Ontario and #2,171 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.
From Bayham, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Bayham, weighted by who lives there.
Bayham is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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
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
The region comes 21st of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Bayham’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Bayham’s region is below the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Bayham belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.9 predicts: 80.6 years, where the trend gives 81.4. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Self-reported obesity, 38%, tops Ontario (30%).
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 49% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 23% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Bayham is 31st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,808 to 8,084 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Shaughnessy BC A+ | 8,034 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 29 | Otonabee-South Monaghan ON C | 8,084 | 13 km | 47% |
| 30 | La Broquerie MB C+ | 7,808 | 13 km | 51% |
| 31 | Bayham ON C+ | 7,935 | 16 km | 49% |
| 32 | Whitewater Region ON C | 7,899 | 17 km | 50% |
| 33 | Newell County AB C+ | 7,846 | 18 km | 52% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bayham
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bayham | 16 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
| Malahide 13 km | 18 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
| Aylmer 14 km | 16 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
| Tillsonburg 17 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 80.6 | B− |
The neighbours all sit in Bayham’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Tillsonburg live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 16 km in Bayham.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Bayham shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Bayham
How far is Bayham from a hospital?
Residents of Bayham have a clinic 15 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.8 km away, in straight lines.
How is Bayham’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 Bayham’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Bayham?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Bayham?
There is no figure for Bayham alone; its health region’s is 83.0 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
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).