Photo: Balcer~commonswiki · CC BY 2.5Caledonia scores below 85% of Canadian towns for health
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. For Caledonia itself the measure is access, and it lags: 10 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Caledonia grades D for health, #846 of 866 in Ontario and #2,460 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Caledonia
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Caledonia than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 19% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Caledonia, a child can expect 1.9 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 9.1%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Caledonia live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. 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.
Caledonia grades D 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: #846 of 866 in Ontario and #2,460 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.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.1%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 45% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 21% 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.
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 27th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Caledonia’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Caledonia: 10 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Caledonia, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Caledonia 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. The centre of population is 16 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 10 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.2 years of life
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Caledonia’s region’s dot is under the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Caledonia’s region’s: 79.6 years where the line expects 80.8 at 3.0. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 7 of them above it, a median of 80.3. Judged by income, around $87,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 46% to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (53% to 51%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Caledonia is 37th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (47,002 to 67,385 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 3 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 35 | Mascouche QC B+ | 56,897 | 9.2 km | 56% |
| 36 | Stouffville ON A− | 58,010 | 10 km | 51% |
| 37 | Caledonia ON D | 56,059 | 10 km | 48% |
| 38 | Rocky View County AB A | 50,260 | 13 km | 56% |
| 39 | Innisfil ON B | 50,686 | 14 km | 54% |
| 40 | Keswick ON B+ | 53,630 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Caledonia
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Caledonia | 10 km | 48% | 79.6 | D |
| Six Nations (Part) 40 16 km | 9.3 km | 43% | 80.4 | C+ |
Across a regional line, Six Nations (Part) 40 has its own figures: life expectancy 80.4, against 79.6 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Caledonia itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Caledonia
How is Caledonia’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 Caledonia’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Caledonia?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Caledonia’s health region only: 81.9 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Caledonia?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How far is Caledonia from a hospital?
Residents of Caledonia have a clinic 14 km away on average and a pharmacy 8.9 km away, in straight lines.
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).