Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Lives run long around New Springbrook: 85.3 years, 3.8 more than the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 6.9 km from the average resident of New Springbrook, further than the usual 3.7 km. New Springbrook grades B+ for health, #461 of 866 in Ontario and #1,171 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in New Springbrook
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 85.3 years, New Springbrook’s region outlives the 82.9 that regions scoring 2.5 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around New Springbrook is well below the typical town’s; 5.9% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places New Springbrook at 1.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 5.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.8 km off, New Springbrook is well served for prescriptions. 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.
New Springbrook 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: #461 of 866 in Ontario and #1,171 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 2.4 years more here
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), New Springbrook’s region comes out above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and New Springbrook’s region, at 2.5, should live about 82.9 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 85.3. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (12%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 27%, trails Ontario (30%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 11% to the province’s 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.
From New Springbrook, a hospital is 6.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of New Springbrook, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of New Springbrook travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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 2nd 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
This is the one part of the block measured for New Springbrook itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Ontario, 55% very good or excellent to 51%; 26% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
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: New Springbrook comes 31st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,523 to 13,090 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Regent Park ON A | 12,797 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Downtown AB B+ | 12,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 29 | Forest ON C+ | 12,962 | 6.8 km | 49% |
| 30 | North Saanich BC A | 12,986 | 6.9 km | 55% |
| 31 | New Springbrook ON B+ | 12,804 | 6.9 km | 49% |
| 32 | Winchester ON C+ | 12,706 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 33 | Ayr ON A− | 13,051 | 9.1 km | 53% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around New Springbrook
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Springbrook | 6.9 km | 49% | 85.3 | B+ |
| Springbrook 2.5 km | 4.6 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Credit Valley 3.3 km | 4.9 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Churchville 3.3 km | 6.2 km | 49% | 85.3 | B+ |
| Fletchers West 3.9 km | 3.7 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Spring Valley 4.0 km | 5.7 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Northwood Park 4.6 km | 3.2 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
Nothing in the regional columns separates New Springbrook from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Northwood Park is the closest to care, 3.2 km to New Springbrook’s 6.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are New Springbrook’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in New Springbrook
What is the life expectancy in New Springbrook?
Statistics Canada publishes it for New Springbrook’s health region only: 87.2 years for women and 83.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is New Springbrook’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 New Springbrook’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is New Springbrook?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
How far is New Springbrook from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.6 km from the average resident of New Springbrook and a pharmacy 0.8 km, as the crow flies.
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).