Health in Chatsworth · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
17% of adults smoke in the health region around Chatsworth, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 13 km from the average resident of Chatsworth, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Chatsworth is C, #774 of 866 in Ontario and #2,234 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
For 0% of homes in Chatsworth the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 18 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Chatsworth, a pharmacy is 15 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Chatsworth 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 (48%)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 54% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.3)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 46% 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: #774 of 866 in Ontario and #2,234 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 Chatsworth, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Chatsworth, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
15 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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 Chatsworth 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.
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Chatsworth’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Chatsworth’s region matches it closely with 81.3. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 81.1 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
25% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9% diabetes
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
25%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
23%
Ontario
At 37%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% against 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
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.
81.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.1
more years expected at 65
13th
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 13th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability3.4
This is the one part of the block measured for Chatsworth 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% 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
46%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
71%
Satisfied with life
89%
Ontario
Asked about their mental health, 49% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 23% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Chatsworth comes 33rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,627 to 7,920 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.7 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Chatsworth alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
Questions about health in Chatsworth
How is Chatsworth’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Chatsworth’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Chatsworth from a hospital?
A clinic is 9.8 km from the average resident of Chatsworth and a pharmacy 15 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Chatsworth?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Chatsworth?
For the health region that includes Chatsworth, women can expect 83.6 years and men 78.9 (2022/2024).
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