Health in Beaverton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
50% of adults around Beaverton rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 82.6 years, 84.7 for a girl and 80.5 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Beaverton’s is long: 9.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Beaverton a grade of B, #611 of 866 in Ontario and #1,855 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 23% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Beaverton, a child can expect 1.1 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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.
Health Grade
Beaverton grades B for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (50%)Better than 39% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 78% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.6)Better than 85% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (9.2 km)Better than 59% of Canadian towns
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: #611 of 866 in Ontario and #1,855 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.
The wider area
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.
82.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
7th
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 7th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.2
Situational vulnerability3.1
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Beaverton’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.
Conditions and habits
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
9%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.5%
Heavy drinking
15%
Ontario
At 36%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 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.
For its deprivation
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Beaverton’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Beaverton’s region is a typical case: 82.6 years at a score of 2.5, where the trend says 82.8. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 82.7 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 9.2 km from the average home in Beaverton
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beaverton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
9.2 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
20 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.8 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Beaverton that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Beaverton itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in Beaverton
How is Beaverton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Beaverton: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Beaverton from a hospital?
Residents of Beaverton have a clinic 20 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.0 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Beaverton?
Women in Beaverton’s region live to 84.7 on average and men to 80.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Beaverton?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0