Around Turnball, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.0 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 4.9 km from the average resident of Turnball, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Turnball a grade of B, #628 of 866 in Ontario and #1,883 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Turnball
Fewer households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Turnball at 1.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Turnball can reach 6.3 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.0 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.
Turnball 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.
Getting to hospital from Turnball: 4.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Turnball’s own, not the region’s.
Turnball 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Turnball’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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); Turnball’s region is near the line.
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 Turnball’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
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
At 28%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 30%. 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (52% to 51%), the region has 27% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Turnball is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,213 to 6,419 people, median 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Neepawa MB B− | 6,328 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 19 | Valley Park ON B | 6,394 | 3.7 km | 53% |
| 20 | Highland ON B | 6,306 | 4.6 km | 53% |
| 21 | Turnball ON B | 6,312 | 4.9 km | 53% |
| 22 | The Orchards At Ellerslie AB B | 6,267 | 6.5 km | 51% |
| 23 | Cachet ON A− | 6,361 | 6.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lanark Highlands ON C+ | 6,370 | 21 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Turnball
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Turnball | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Golf Course 0.8 km | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Central Business Dis 2.7 km | 2.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Sulphur Springs 2.9 km | 5.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Colborne 3.1 km | 6.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Ainslie Wood West 3.5 km | 1.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| York Road 4.3 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Same region, same survey: Turnball’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Ainslie Wood West is the closest to care, 1.9 km to Turnball’s 4.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Turnball shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Turnball
How is Turnball’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Turnball’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Turnball?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Turnball?
For the health region that includes Turnball, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Turnball from a hospital?
Residents of Turnball have a clinic 1.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.0 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).