Health in Colborne · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
53% of adults around Colborne rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.5 and men to 79.0, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Colborne’s is long: 6.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Colborne a grade of B, #640 of 866 in Ontario and #1,900 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the City of Hamilton Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
13%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.5 · men 79.0
Nearest hospital
6.0 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Colborne 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 (6.0 km)Better than 70% 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: #640 of 866 in Ontario and #1,900 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
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Colborne’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Colborne belongs to reaches 81.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 5 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.9 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
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Ontario: 28%, 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Colborne: 6.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Colborne’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
6.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.6 km
residents’ average distance
2.7 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
Colborne is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Colborne’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Ainslie Wood East live nearer a hospital, at 0.9 km against 6.0 km in Colborne.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Colborne itself is the trip to care.
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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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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Colborne
How is Colborne’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Colborne: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Colborne?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Colborne from a hospital?
A clinic is 3.3 km from the average resident of Colborne and a pharmacy 2.6 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Colborne?
For the health region that includes Colborne, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.0 (2022/2024).
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