Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 47% of adults in Bridgenorth’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.5, women 82.8 and men 78.1 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Bridgenorth, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Bridgenorth a grade of C, #807 of 866 in Ontario and #2,307 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bridgenorth
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Bridgenorth’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Bridgenorth than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Bridgenorth, a child can expect 1.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bridgenorth grades C 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: #807 of 866 in Ontario and #2,307 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.
From Bridgenorth, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bridgenorth’s own, not the region’s.
Bridgenorth 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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 23% 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 22nd of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Bridgenorth’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Bridgenorth’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Bridgenorth belongs to reaches 80.5. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 6 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle. The towns here bring in about $80,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 49% very good or excellent to 51%; 27% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Bridgenorth is 39th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 20,071 to 21,170 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Upper Lachine QC A | 21,130 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 37 | Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures QC A+ | 20,864 | 10 km | 62% |
| 38 | Sturgeon County AB B− | 21,144 | 13 km | 51% |
| 39 | Bridgenorth ON C | 20,628 | 14 km | 47% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bridgenorth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bridgenorth | 14 km | 47% | 80.5 | C |
| Curve Lake First Nation 35 7.5 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Peterborough 12 km | 2.8 km | 47% | 80.5 | C+ |
| Douro-Dummer 16 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
Around Bridgenorth the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Peterborough live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 14 km in Bridgenorth.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bridgenorth itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Bridgenorth
How far is Bridgenorth from a hospital?
Residents of Bridgenorth have a clinic 5.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 3.7 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Bridgenorth?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Bridgenorth?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Bridgenorth’s health region only: 82.8 years for women and 78.1 for men (2022/2024).
How is Bridgenorth’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Bridgenorth’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).