Health in Brighton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
18% of adults smoke in the health region around Brighton, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 49% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). Measured from where Brighton’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 14 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Brighton grades C for health, #786 of 866 in Ontario and #2,253 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 0% of homes in Brighton the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Brighton 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.
Very good or excellent health (49%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (14 km)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
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: #786 of 866 in Ontario and #2,253 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 care
From Brighton, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Brighton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
14 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.3 km
residents’ average distance
1.9 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 Brighton 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Brighton’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.6 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Brighton belongs to reaches 81.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (6 of 10, median 81.2 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
28%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
8%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
16%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
18th
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, 18th 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 instability2.5
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition2.4
Situational vulnerability2.6
The index is context and never graded: it describes Brighton’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 trails Ontario: 47% very good or excellent, against 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
Health very good or excellent
47%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
66%
Satisfied with life
83%
Ontario
Stress touches 23% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 49%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Brighton is 36th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,639 to 13,177 people, median 2.5 km.
Across a regional line, Quinte West has its own figures: life expectancy 79.8, against 81.0 here. Colborne is the furthest from care, 24 km to Brighton’s 14 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Brighton itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Brighton
How is Brighton’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Brighton’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Brighton from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.1 km from the average resident of Brighton and a pharmacy 3.3 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Brighton?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Brighton?
Women in Brighton’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 79.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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