Health in Keswick · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Keswick’s health region live to 86.3 on average, 4.8 years beyond the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Keswick’s is long: 17 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Keswick grades B+ for health, #481 of 866 in Ontario and #1,240 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Residents of Keswick live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 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.
Health Grade
Keswick 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 43% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Smokers (10%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (86.3)Better than almost every Canadian town
Distance to a hospital (17 km)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
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: #481 of 866 in Ontario and #1,240 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 care
From Keswick, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Keswick, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
17 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.0 km
residents’ average distance
1.6 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Keswick that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
1.3 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Keswick’s region comes out above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Keswick’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 83.5 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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.8% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
7.8%
Obese (self-reported)
23%
Mood disorder
11%
Anxiety disorder
9.1%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
9.8%
Ontario
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is rarer (9.8% 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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.
86.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
23.7
more years expected at 65
1st
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
Top of the 34 regions in Ontario: the lowest figure is 73.7, 12.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency2.6
Ethno-cultural composition3.2
Situational vulnerability3.3
This is the one part of the block measured for Keswick 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 50% 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
Health very good or excellent
50%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (53% against 51%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Keswick is 39th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (45,569 to 62,914 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.8 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Innisfil’s life expectancy is 81.5, this region’s 86.3. Residents of East Gwillimbury live nearer a hospital, at 6.0 km against 17 km in Keswick.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Keswick shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Keswick
What is the life expectancy in Keswick?
There is no figure for Keswick alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Keswick from a hospital?
For everyday care, Keswick’s residents are 3.0 km from a pharmacy and 9.6 km from a clinic on average.
How is Keswick’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Keswick’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Keswick?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
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