Health in Beasley · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Beasley’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.5 and men to 79.0, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.4 km from the average resident of Beasley, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Beasley is B+, #503 of 866 in Ontario and #1,502 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Measured from where people live, Beasley is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.4 km away. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.4 out of 5, Beasley sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Beasley has 44 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 km away. 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
Beasley 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 (53%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.4 km)Better than almost every Canadian town
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: #503 of 866 in Ontario and #1,502 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
Getting to hospital from Beasley: 0.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beasley’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.4 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.3 km
residents’ average distance
44 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Beasley is on the near side.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
15th
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
Ranked 15th 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
Residential instability4.8
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition4.6
Situational vulnerability4.4
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Beasley’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Beasley’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Beasley’s region, at 3.0, should live about 81.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 5, with 80.9 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
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.5% 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
22%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
28%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
9.4%
Heavy drinking
21%
Ontario
On weight the region is ordinary for Ontario: 28% report obesity, the province 30%. More adults drink heavily, 21% 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.
Health survey
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
54%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
63%
Satisfied with life
82%
Ontario
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 52% against 51%, and 27% under quite a bit of stress most days.
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, Beasley is 1st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,240 to 6,436 people, median 4.7 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Beasley’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Beasley alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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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 Beasley
How healthy is Beasley?
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 far is Beasley from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Beasley live: 0.4 km to a clinic, 0.3 km to a pharmacy.
How is Beasley’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Beasley has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Beasley?
For the health region that includes Beasley, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.0 (2022/2024).
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