Health in Brampton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 85.3 years of life in the region around Brampton, 3.8 above the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 49% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Brampton apart within its region is distance, and at 3.9 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). At 8.2%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 11% for Ontario.
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.5, would put Brampton’s region near 82.9 years; it reaches 85.3. For its deprivation ↓
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Brampton is well below the typical town’s; 5.9% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Brampton has 14 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Brampton isn’t graded for health yet
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against Canadian towns.
49%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
19%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
8.2%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
85.3
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.9 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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.
For its deprivation
2.4 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Brampton’s dot is marked, above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Brampton’s region beats it: 85.3 years against the 82.9 the trend gives a score of 2.5. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 82.7.
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (12%)
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
21%
Arthritis
16%
Diabetes
12%
Obese (self-reported)
27%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
8.4%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
8.2%
Smoke every day
5.9%
Heavy drinking
11%
Ontario
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 27% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs under the province, 11% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Brampton: 3.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Brampton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
14 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
Residents of Brampton travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
85.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
23.2
more years expected at 65
2nd
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency2.3
Ethno-cultural composition4.9
Situational vulnerability2.7
The index is context and never graded: it describes Brampton’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 51% 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
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
55%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
26%
Strong sense of belonging
64%
Satisfied with life
82%
Ontario
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 55% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 26% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Brampton
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Lakelands VillageN-Section (bramalea)MadocCentreBramalea WoodsHeart Lake SouthBrampton
Only the hospital column is local here: Brampton and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Brampton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Brampton
What is the life expectancy in Brampton?
Women in Brampton’s region live to 87.2 on average and men to 83.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
Does Brampton have a Health grade?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Brampton’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Brampton?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Brampton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Brampton’s residents are 0.7 km from a pharmacy and 2.9 km from a clinic on average.
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