Around Normanhurst, 53% of adults call 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. What sets Normanhurst apart within its region is distance, and at 2.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Normanhurst grades B for health, #585 of 866 in Ontario and #1,812 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Normanhurst
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Normanhurst’s neighbourhoods average 4.6 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Normanhurst has 13 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.4 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.
Normanhurst 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: #585 of 866 in Ontario and #1,812 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 Normanhurst, a hospital is 2.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Normanhurst’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Normanhurst here: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Normanhurst’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Normanhurst’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.0, the expected figure is 81.0 years, and Normanhurst’s region matches it closely with 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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 28% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking is commoner too (21% against 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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Ontario (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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (52% against 51%), while 27% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Normanhurst is 12th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,219 to 3,317 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Jasper Park AB B+ | 3,219 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 10 | Greeningdon ON B | 3,296 | 2.0 km | 53% |
| 11 | Hay River NT C− | 3,317 | 2.4 km | 43% |
| 12 | Normanhurst ON B | 3,260 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 13 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska QC A | 3,307 | 3.0 km | 61% |
| 14 | Bulyea Heights AB B | 3,264 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Normanhurst
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normanhurst | 2.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Mcquesten West 0.7 km | 2.3 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Glenview West 0.8 km | 2.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Homeside 1.1 km | 2.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Bartonville 1.2 km | 2.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Crown Point East 1.8 km | 2.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Rosedale 1.9 km | 2.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Normanhurst’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Normanhurst shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Normanhurst
How is Normanhurst’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Normanhurst’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Normanhurst?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Normanhurst?
There is no figure for Normanhurst alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Normanhurst from a hospital?
Residents of Normanhurst have a clinic 0.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.4 km away, in straight lines.
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).