Photo: Joe Mabel (on Flickr as Joe Mabel from Seattle, US) · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 54% of adults in Bradford’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.5 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.5 for men. Measured from where Bradford’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.5 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Bradford grades B+ for health, #489 of 866 in Ontario and #1,358 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bradford
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Bradford can reach 7.9 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.5 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Bradford 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: #489 of 866 in Ontario and #1,358 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.
Getting to hospital from Bradford: 8.5 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Bradford, weighted by who lives there.
Bradford 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Bradford’s lies near the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.8 would be expected to reach 81.5 years, and Bradford’s region is close, at 81.5. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 81.2.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (8%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 34% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 20% 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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 12th.
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; Bradford’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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 24% 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: Bradford comes 32nd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (43,555 to 59,664 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 30 | West Vancouver BC A+ | 47,929 | 7.5 km | 59% |
| 31 | Alliston ON B+ | 50,739 | 7.9 km | 54% |
| 32 | Bradford ON B+ | 51,346 | 8.5 km | 54% |
| 33 | Mascouche QC B+ | 56,897 | 9.2 km | 56% |
| 34 | Stouffville ON A− | 58,010 | 10 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bradford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bradford | 8.5 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Newmarket 11 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| East Gwillimbury 12 km | 6.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Aurora 15 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Alliston 18 km | 7.9 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| King 18 km | 12 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Newmarket’s life expectancy is 86.3, this region’s 81.5. Newmarket is the closest to care, 2.5 km to Bradford’s 8.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bradford itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Bradford
How is Bradford’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Bradford’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Bradford from a hospital?
Residents of Bradford have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.5 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Bradford?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Bradford?
For the health region that includes Bradford, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (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).