Photo: Matilde Park from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Beamsville’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Beamsville’s is long: 7.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Beamsville a grade of C+, #747 of 866 in Ontario and #2,188 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beamsville
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Beamsville than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 25% of adults, diabetes for 11%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Beamsville 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: #747 of 866 in Ontario and #2,188 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.
High blood pressure for 25% 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Ontario: 32% report obesity, the province 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Beamsville’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Beamsville’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.9 against the line’s 81.4. It is outlived by 5 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.4 years. Modest pay, about $80,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (0.14).
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.
From Beamsville, a hospital is 7.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beamsville’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Beamsville travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Beamsville’s own areas.
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%)
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 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 50%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Beamsville is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 27,155 to 29,669 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montagne QC A | 28,569 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 3 | Marie-Victorin QC A | 28,904 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 33 | Argyle ON B+ | 28,109 | 5.2 km | 52% |
| 34 | Laurendeau QC A | 27,321 | 5.9 km | 55% |
| 35 | Beamsville ON C+ | 28,356 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 36 | Alloa ON B+ | 29,669 | 7.6 km | 49% |
| 37 | Picton ON C− | 27,544 | 8.2 km | 45% |
| 40 | Amherstburg ON B− | 27,509 | 19 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beamsville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beamsville | 7.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Grimsby 12 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Smithville 13 km | 12 km | 49% | 81.2 | C |
| St. Catharines 15 km | 2.6 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Pelham 17 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Fifty Point 18 km | 8.4 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Thorold 18 km | 3.5 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
Across a regional line, Fifty Point has its own figures: life expectancy 81.2, against 81.2 here. Residents of Smithville live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 7.0 km in Beamsville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beamsville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in Beamsville
How is Beamsville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Beamsville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Beamsville?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
How far is Beamsville from a hospital?
For everyday care, Beamsville’s residents are 3.1 km from a pharmacy and 1.8 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Beamsville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Beamsville (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).