Photo: BrockvilleFact · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Brockville, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.3 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Brockville apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Brockville grades B for health, #648 of 866 in Ontario and #1,911 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Brockville
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Brockville is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.2 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Brockville has 8.7 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Brockville 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: #648 of 866 in Ontario and #1,911 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 Brockville, a hospital is 1.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Brockville, weighted by who lives there.
From Brockville that is nearer than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Brockville’s region is near the line.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.3 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Brockville belongs to reaches 81.2. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.6%)
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, 38%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 21% 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
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 15th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Brockville’s residents live; they carry no weight in 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: 49% 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
Mental health beats Ontario as well: 56% very good or excellent to 51%, with 22% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Brockville is 9th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,794 to 24,681 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartierville QC A | 24,617 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 2 | Ouest (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 23,373 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Renfrew-Collingwood BC A+ | 23,392 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 7 | Riley Park BC A+ | 23,682 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 8 | Fort St. John BC C+ | 24,383 | 1.3 km | 43% |
| 9 | Brockville ON B | 23,720 | 1.5 km | 51% |
| 10 | Mont-Royal QC A | 22,821 | 1.6 km | 54% |
| 11 | Outremont QC A | 24,629 | 1.6 km | 54% |
| 40 | Essex ON B− | 23,872 | 22 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Brockville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brockville | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Elizabethtown-Kitley 11 km | 8.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Augusta 13 km | 13 km | 51% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Front of Yonge 15 km | 10 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Prescott 19 km | 17 km | 51% | 81.2 | C+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Brockville’s; read across for the hospital trip. Prescott is the furthest from care, 17 km to Brockville’s 1.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Brockville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
Questions about health in Brockville
How is Brockville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Brockville has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Brockville from a hospital?
For everyday care, Brockville’s residents are 0.5 km from a pharmacy and 0.7 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Brockville?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Brockville?
Women in Brockville’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).