Photo: Drozwik Drones · CC BY 3.0More smokers around Cobourg: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 49% against 51%. Measured from where Cobourg’s residents live, a hospital is 2.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Health gives Cobourg a grade of C+, #712 of 866 in Ontario and #2,101 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cobourg
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Cobourg has 6.7 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cobourg 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: #712 of 866 in Ontario and #2,101 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 to hospital from Cobourg: 2.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cobourg, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Cobourg sits near the middle.
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Cobourg’s lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Cobourg’s region is a typical case: 81.0 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 6 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle.
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.
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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 18th 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; Cobourg’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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 47% to 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 49% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Cobourg comes 23rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,012 to 23,115 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 21 | Brentwood BC A | 22,170 | 2.0 km | 48% |
| 22 | East End-Danforth ON A | 22,055 | 2.1 km | 50% |
| 23 | Cobourg ON C+ | 22,529 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 24 | Birchcliffe-Cliffside ON A | 23,115 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 25 | South End NS B+ | 22,012 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cobourg
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobourg | 2.6 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Hamilton 9.5 km | 8.6 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Port Hope 11 km | 3.7 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Alnwick/Haldimand 15 km | 18 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
Around Cobourg the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Alnwick/Haldimand live further from a hospital, at 18 km against 2.6 km in Cobourg.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Cobourg’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cobourg
How is Cobourg’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Cobourg has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Cobourg?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Cobourg?
Women in Cobourg’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 79.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Cobourg from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Cobourg live: 1.4 km to a clinic, 0.9 km to a pharmacy.
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).