Photo: Jodie Wilson from Mountain View, USA · CC BY 2.0Around Douro-Dummer, 47% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.5 years (82.8 for women, 78.1 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Douro-Dummer apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 20 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Douro-Dummer is C−, #823 of 866 in Ontario and #2,370 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Douro-Dummer
Far from a hospital
Residents of Douro-Dummer live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (19 km from its centre of population), and 8% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Douro-Dummer is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Douro-Dummer runs 1.0 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Douro-Dummer 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: #823 of 866 in Ontario and #2,370 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 Douro-Dummer, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Douro-Dummer, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Douro-Dummer is on the far side.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (11%)
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 40%, the province 30%. At 23%, 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.
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
Ranked 22nd of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Douro-Dummer 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Douro-Dummer’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.9 about 81.1 years; Douro-Dummer’s region’s 80.5 is within a year of it. It is outlived by 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.2 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $80,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 27% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 49% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Douro-Dummer is 38th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,282 to 8,484 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alta Vista ON A+ | 8,387 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 2 | Valley Gardens MB B+ | 8,329 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Saint-Roch QC A+ | 8,381 | 1.0 km | 62% |
| 36 | Electoral Area A, Comox Valley BC B+ | 8,415 | 14 km | 54% |
| 37 | Aylmer ON C+ | 8,371 | 16 km | 49% |
| 38 | Douro-Dummer ON C− | 8,379 | 20 km | 47% |
| 39 | Muskoka Lakes ON B | 8,463 | 20 km | 54% |
| 40 | Vermilion River County AB C− | 8,282 | 23 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Douro-Dummer
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Douro-Dummer | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Bridgenorth 16 km | 14 km | 47% | 80.5 | C |
| Norwood 16 km | 18 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Curve Lake First Nation 35 17 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Peterborough 18 km | 2.8 km | 47% | 80.5 | C+ |
Around Douro-Dummer the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Peterborough live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 20 km in Douro-Dummer.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Douro-Dummer itself is the trip to care.
- 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 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.
Questions about health in Douro-Dummer
How is Douro-Dummer’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Douro-Dummer: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Douro-Dummer from a hospital?
A clinic is 11 km from the average resident of Douro-Dummer and a pharmacy 8.7 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Douro-Dummer?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Douro-Dummer?
Women in Douro-Dummer’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 78.1, 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).