Photo: Drozwik Drones · CC BY 3.0Very good or excellent health for 50% of adults in Bowmanville’s health region
Lives in the region last 82.6 years on average (2022/2024): 84.7 for women, 80.5 for men. For Bowmanville itself the measure is access, and it lags: 4.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Bowmanville grades B for health, #544 of 866 in Ontario and #1,680 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bowmanville
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Bowmanville, 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 ↓
Long-term conditions run high
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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Bowmanville can reach 4.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bowmanville 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.
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: #544 of 866 in Ontario and #1,680 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.
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 7th.
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; Bowmanville’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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Bowmanville: 4.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Bowmanville, weighted by who lives there.
Bowmanville is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 1.9 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 4.9 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Bowmanville’s lies near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Bowmanville’s region fits it, 82.6 years at 2.5 against the line’s 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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Mental health is no outlier: 52% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 24% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Bowmanville is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (85,160 to 157,345 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria BC A+ | 103,888 | 1.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Saint-Jérôme QC A+ | 85,160 | 2.1 km | 60% |
| 28 | Cape Breton NS C− | 106,752 | 4.8 km | 49% |
| 29 | Brossard QC A | 97,597 | 4.8 km | 55% |
| 30 | Bowmanville ON B | 114,180 | 4.9 km | 50% |
| 31 | Chilliwack BC B | 105,520 | 5.1 km | 47% |
| 32 | Delta BC A | 124,670 | 5.2 km | 50% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bowmanville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bowmanville | 4.9 km | 50% | 82.6 | B |
| Oshawa 13 km | 2.9 km | 50% | 82.6 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Bowmanville’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Bowmanville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Bowmanville
What is the life expectancy in Bowmanville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.7 for women, 80.5 for men around Bowmanville (2022/2024).
How healthy is Bowmanville?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
How far is Bowmanville from a hospital?
Residents of Bowmanville have a clinic 13 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.9 km away, in straight lines.
How is Bowmanville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Bowmanville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).