53% of adults around Golf Course rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men. For Golf Course itself the measure is access, and it lags: 4.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Golf Course a grade of B, #628 of 866 in Ontario and #1,883 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Golf Course
Plenty of pharmacies
With 4.9 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Golf Course is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Golf Course 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.
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: #628 of 866 in Ontario and #1,883 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.
From Golf Course, a hospital is 4.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Golf Course, weighted by who lives there.
Golf Course is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Golf Course’s, follows the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Golf Course belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.0 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.0. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 80.9.
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.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.5% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 28%, sits within a few points of Ontario (30%). At 21%, 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 15th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Golf Course itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
Stress touches 27% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 52%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Golf Course is 22nd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,686 to 3,800 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 20 | Kensington AB B | 3,697 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 21 | Country Hills AB A | 3,702 | 4.8 km | 56% |
| 22 | Golf Course ON B | 3,741 | 4.9 km | 53% |
| 23 | Cameron Heights AB B | 3,710 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 24 | Westville NS D | 3,731 | 5.9 km | 42% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Golf Course
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Golf Course | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Turnball 0.8 km | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Central Business Dis 2.3 km | 2.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Colborne 2.4 km | 6.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Ainslie Wood West 3.3 km | 1.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Sulphur Springs 3.4 km | 5.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| York Road 3.7 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Golf Course’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Ainslie Wood West live nearer a hospital, at 1.9 km against 4.9 km in Golf Course.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Golf Course shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Golf Course
How is Golf Course’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Golf Course’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Golf Course?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Golf Course?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men around Golf Course (2022/2024).
How far is Golf Course from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Golf Course is 1.7 km from a clinic and 0.7 km from a pharmacy.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).