Health in Drayton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Drayton’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 82.4 years, 84.5 for a girl and 80.2 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 15 km from the average resident of Drayton, further than the usual 3.7 km. Drayton grades B for health, #652 of 866 in Ontario and #1,917 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 0% of homes in Drayton the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. 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.
Health Grade
Drayton grades B 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 (51%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 56% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.4)Better than 79% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (15 km)Better than 40% 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: #652 of 866 in Ontario and #1,917 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 Drayton, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Drayton, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
15 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
12 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
From Drayton that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Drayton’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Drayton’s region fits it, 82.4 years at 2.4 against the line’s 83.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 83.0 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
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.3%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
31%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
9.5%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Obesity tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 30% across Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 22% 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.
The wider area
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.
82.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.9
more years expected at 65
8th
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 8th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.4
Economic dependency1.3
Ethno-cultural composition2.7
Situational vulnerability3.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Drayton’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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
For 23% 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.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Drayton is 36th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,315 to 11,716 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 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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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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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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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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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 Drayton’s own.
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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 Drayton
How is Drayton’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 Drayton’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Drayton from a hospital?
Residents of Drayton have a clinic 7.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 12 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Drayton?
Women in Drayton’s region live to 84.5 on average and men to 80.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Drayton?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
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