Health in Georgian Bluffs · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Georgian Bluffs: 17% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. Measured from where Georgian Bluffs’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.1 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Georgian Bluffs is C+, #746 of 866 in Ontario and #2,184 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Grey Bruce Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
17%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.3
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.6 · men 78.9
Nearest hospital
9.1 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Georgian Bluffs 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 (9.1 km)Better than 60% 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: #746 of 866 in Ontario and #2,184 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
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Georgian Bluffs’, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.7 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Georgian Bluffs belongs to reaches 81.3. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 81.1 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (9%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 23% to the province’s 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 Georgian Bluffs: 9.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Georgian Bluffs’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
9.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
7.6 km
residents’ average distance
0.4 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 Georgian Bluffs that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Georgian Bluffs and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Owen Sound live nearer a hospital, at 2.5 km against 9.1 km in Georgian Bluffs.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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 Georgian Bluffs’ own.
Questions about health in Georgian Bluffs
How is Georgian Bluffs’ 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 Georgian Bluffs’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Georgian Bluffs?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Georgian Bluffs from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Georgian Bluffs is 9.1 km from a clinic and 7.6 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Georgian Bluffs?
Women in Georgian Bluffs’ region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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