Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.053% of adults around Strathcona rate 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). Measured from where Strathcona’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.2 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Strathcona a grade of B, #537 of 866 in Ontario and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Strathcona
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Strathcona: 1.0 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Strathcona can reach 34 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.4 km off. 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.
Strathcona 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: #537 of 866 in Ontario and #1,646 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 to hospital from Strathcona: 1.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Strathcona, weighted by who lives there.
Strathcona is closer in 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Strathcona’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Strathcona belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.0 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 5, with 80.9 years in the middle.
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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.5%
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Ontario: 28% report obesity, the province 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
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
Ranked 15th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Strathcona’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
For 27% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 52% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Strathcona is 5th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,175 to 9,526 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Manor Park ON A+ | 9,491 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 4 | Old East York ON A | 9,175 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 5 | Strathcona ON B | 9,348 | 1.2 km | 53% |
| 6 | Cooksville NHD (East) ON A− | 9,313 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 7 | Steeles Corners ON A | 9,468 | 1.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Strathcona
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona | 1.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Central 1.0 km | 0.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Kirkendall North 1.1 km | 1.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Durand 1.3 km | 0.7 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Westdale South 1.6 km | 0.5 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Kirkendall South 1.8 km | 1.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Corktown 2.1 km | 0.3 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Strathcona from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Strathcona alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in Strathcona
How is Strathcona’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Strathcona’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Strathcona?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Strathcona from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.5 km from the average resident of Strathcona and a pharmacy 0.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Strathcona?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Strathcona’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.0 for men (2022/2024).
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).