Health in Collingwood · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
54% of adults around Collingwood rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.5 and men to 79.5, 81.5 years taken together (2022/2024). Measured from where Collingwood’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Collingwood a grade of A−, #439 of 866 in Ontario and #1,138 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.5
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.5 · men 79.5
Nearest hospital
2.3 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Collingwood grades A− 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 (54%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 53% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 77% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.5)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.3 km)Better than 84% 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: #439 of 866 in Ontario and #1,138 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.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Collingwood’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.5 years; Collingwood’s region’s 81.5 is within a year of it. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 8 of them below it, a median of 81.2.
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
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8% 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
20%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
8%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.3%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 34%, the province 30%. At 20%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Collingwood: 2.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Collingwood’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.7 km
residents’ average distance
2.6 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
Collingwood is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Across a regional line, Thornbury has its own figures: life expectancy 81.3, against 81.5 here. Thornbury is the furthest from care, 12 km to Collingwood’s 2.3 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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 Collingwood’s own.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Collingwood
How healthy is Collingwood?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
How is Collingwood’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 Collingwood’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Collingwood from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Collingwood is 1.7 km from a clinic and 1.7 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Collingwood?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Collingwood’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.5 for men (2022/2024).
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