Photo: Michael Hiemstra from Canada · CC BY 2.0Health in Rosenberg beats 90% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 53% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole manages 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Rosenberg live 2.8 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Rosenberg grades A for health, #154 of 866 in Ontario and #630 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rosenberg
Longer lives in the region
Rosenberg’s region sits 1.3 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 6.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.1 km off, Rosenberg is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Rosenberg grades A 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: #154 of 866 in Ontario and #630 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.
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 6th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Rosenberg’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.
Getting to hospital from Rosenberg: 2.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rosenberg’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Rosenberg travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Rosenberg’s region comes out on the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.6 would be expected to reach 82.5 years, and Rosenberg’s region is close, at 82.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 82.5 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8% 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 runs higher than in the province, at 33% of adults against 30% for Ontario.
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.
55% 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 23% 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Rosenberg comes 15th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,653 to 10,011 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Cambie BC A+ | 9,846 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Vincent ON B | 10,011 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 3 | Northeast SK B+ | 9,670 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 13 | Argyle North SK B+ | 9,971 | 2.0 km | 49% |
| 14 | The Valleys of Thornhill ON A | 9,979 | 2.3 km | 51% |
| 15 | Rosenberg ON A | 9,831 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 16 | River Valley Oleskiw AB B | 9,922 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 17 | Silverado AB A+ | 9,663 | 3.1 km | 56% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rosenberg
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosenberg | 2.8 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Huron South 1.7 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Country Hills West 2.3 km | 1.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Laurentian West 2.8 km | 3.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Country Hills 3.2 km | 0.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Laurentian Hills 3.7 km | 2.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Alpine 3.8 km | 1.6 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Rosenberg’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Rosenberg itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Rosenberg
What is the life expectancy in Rosenberg?
Women in Rosenberg’s region live to 84.9 on average and men to 80.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Rosenberg’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Rosenberg has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Rosenberg?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Rosenberg from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Rosenberg live: 4.6 km to a clinic, 0.1 km to a pharmacy.
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).