Health in Freelton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
53% of adults around Freelton rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.5 and men at 79.0. For Freelton itself the measure is access, and it lags: 15 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Freelton grades B− for health, #691 of 866 in Ontario and #2,032 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Residents of Freelton 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
Freelton 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 (15 km)Better than 39% 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: #691 of 866 in Ontario and #2,032 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 Freelton: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Freelton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
15 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
11 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
10 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Freelton 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 Freelton’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)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.0 would be expected to reach 81.0 years, and Freelton’s region is close, at 81.2. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 28% of adults against 30% for Ontario. 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 15th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.6
Economic dependency2.4
Ethno-cultural composition2.6
Situational vulnerability2.4
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Freelton’s own areas.
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%
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 is close to the province’s: 52% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 27% find most days quite stressful.
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, Freelton is 27th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,685 to 2,761 people, median 8.2 km.
One health region covers Freelton and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. York Road is the closest to care, 2.9 km to Freelton’s 15 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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 Freelton’s own.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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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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. 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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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Freelton
How is Freelton’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Freelton’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Freelton from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Freelton live: 11 km to a clinic, 10 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Freelton?
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 Freelton?
There is no figure for Freelton alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.0 for men in 2022/2024.
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