Health in Gravenhurst · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 54% of adults in Gravenhurst’s health region
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Gravenhurst’s is long: 16 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Gravenhurst is B, #596 of 866 in Ontario and #1,828 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Gravenhurst live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Gravenhurst 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 (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 (16 km)Better than 35% 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: #596 of 866 in Ontario and #1,828 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 Gravenhurst, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Gravenhurst, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
16 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
5.1 km
residents’ average distance
0.9 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
Gravenhurst is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Gravenhurst’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Gravenhurst belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.5. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with 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
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (8%)
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
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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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.
81.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.5
more years expected at 65
12th
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
The region comes 12th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability3.2
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Gravenhurst’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
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 54% very good or excellent, against 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
54%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
63%
Satisfied with life
83%
Ontario
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 49% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 24%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Gravenhurst is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (14,321 to 14,837 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
Around Gravenhurst the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Bracebridge live nearer a hospital, at 4.3 km against 16 km in Gravenhurst.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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 Gravenhurst’s own.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Gravenhurst
How far is Gravenhurst from a hospital?
Residents of Gravenhurst have a clinic 5.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.1 km away, in straight lines.
How is Gravenhurst’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Gravenhurst’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Gravenhurst?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Gravenhurst?
Women in Gravenhurst’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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