Health in Corktown · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Corktown, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.5 and men 79.0 (2022/2024). For Corktown itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Corktown is B+, #502 of 866 in Ontario and #1,489 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Corktown; from its centre of population the trip is 0.4 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Corktown at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Corktown has 48 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Corktown 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 (0.3 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: #502 of 866 in Ontario and #1,489 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 Corktown: 0.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Corktown, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.3 km
residents’ average distance
48 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, Corktown is on the near side.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
81.2
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
This region is 15th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability5.0
Economic dependency2.6
Ethno-cultural composition4.7
Situational vulnerability4.2
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Corktown’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.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Corktown’s region is near 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 Corktown’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 3.0 against the line’s 81.0. It outlives 5 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.5%)
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
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%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 21% 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.
Health survey
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 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
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, Corktown is 1st nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,744 to 9,157 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
Only the hospital column is local here: Corktown and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
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 Corktown alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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. 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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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.
Questions about health in Corktown
How is Corktown’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Corktown: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Corktown from a hospital?
For everyday care, Corktown’s residents are 0.3 km from a pharmacy and 0.3 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Corktown?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Corktown?
Women in Corktown’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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