Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Havelock, 47% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.5, with women at 82.8 and men at 78.1. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Havelock’s is long: 20 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Havelock a grade of C−, #823 of 866 in Ontario and #2,370 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Havelock
A long way to hospital
Residents of Havelock live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 12% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Havelock than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Havelock’s region sits 1.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Havelock grades C− 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: #823 of 866 in Ontario and #2,370 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 Havelock, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Havelock, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Havelock is on the far side.
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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% 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.
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 22nd of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Havelock 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Havelock’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Havelock’s region is a typical case: 80.5 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (6 of 10, median 81.2 years). The towns here bring in about $80,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 49% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 27% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Havelock is 37th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,568 to 5,761 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Bankview AB A+ | 5,610 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 35 | Memramcook NB C | 5,616 | 17 km | 43% |
| 36 | Osoyoos BC B− | 5,724 | 18 km | 52% |
| 37 | Havelock ON C− | 5,663 | 20 km | 47% |
| 38 | Shediac NB C | 5,699 | 22 km | 43% |
| 39 | Gananoque ON C | 5,568 | 28 km | 51% |
| 40 | Chertsey QC B | 5,678 | 30 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Havelock
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Norwood 11 km | 18 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Campbellford 16 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Marmora 16 km | 24 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Campbellford’s life expectancy is 81.0, this region’s 80.5. Campbellford is the closest to care, 8.0 km to Havelock’s 20 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Havelock’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
Questions about health in Havelock
How far is Havelock from a hospital?
Residents of Havelock have a clinic 20 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.0 km away, in straight lines.
How is Havelock’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Havelock’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Havelock?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Havelock?
There is no figure for Havelock alone; its health region’s is 82.8 for women and 78.1 for men in 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).