Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Bonfield trails 90% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 51% for Ontario. What sets Bonfield apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 23 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Bonfield a grade of D, #857 of 866 in Ontario and #2,515 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bonfield
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Bonfield than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Bonfield live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (22 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 19 km from the average home in Bonfield, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.7, would put Bonfield’s region near 78.2 years; it reaches 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bonfield grades D 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: #857 of 866 in Ontario and #2,515 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.
27% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.7% diabetes
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 36% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% 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.
The nearest hospital is 23 km from the average home in Bonfield
Straight-line distances from each part of Bonfield, weighted by who lives there.
From Bonfield that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
1.8 more years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Bonfield’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Bonfield’s region, at 3.7, should live about 78.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 80.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 78.2 years in the middle.
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.
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
This region is 24th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Bonfield’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
46% 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
The region’s 49% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 25% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Bonfield comes 35th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,549 to 2,650 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosetown SK B+ | 2,600 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 3 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 33 | Salisbury NB C | 2,585 | 20 km | 43% |
| 34 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC B+ | 2,575 | 20 km | 59% |
| 35 | Bonfield ON D | 2,597 | 23 km | 47% |
| 36 | Sainte-Croix QC B+ | 2,612 | 24 km | 59% |
| 37 | Division No. 7, Subdivision E NL D− | 2,632 | 27 km | 44% |
| 40 | High Prairie AB D− | 2,607 | 41 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bonfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bonfield | 23 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
| East Ferris 10.0 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | C− |
| Chisholm 17 km | 28 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
| Callander 17 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | C− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Bonfield’s; read across for the hospital trip.
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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Bonfield alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Bonfield
How far is Bonfield from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bonfield’s residents are 19 km from a pharmacy and 25 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Bonfield?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Bonfield?
For the health region that includes Bonfield, women can expect 82.6 years and men 77.6 (2022/2024).
How is Bonfield’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 Bonfield’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).