Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Bostwick, 52% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.9 years at birth, 84.2 for women and 79.6 for men. What sets Bostwick apart within its region is distance, and at 4.5 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Bostwick grades B+ for health, #474 of 866 in Ontario and #1,196 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bostwick
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Bostwick has 9.3 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.6 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bostwick 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: #474 of 866 in Ontario and #1,196 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.
The nearest hospital is 4.5 km from the average home in Bostwick
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bostwick’s own, not the region’s.
Bostwick 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Bostwick’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.7 would be expected to reach 81.9 years, and Bostwick’s region is close, at 81.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.3 years. Judged by income, around $80,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (7.4%)
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. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 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
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 9th of the 34.
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 Bostwick’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 53% and 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
Mental health is no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Bostwick comes 22nd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,551 to 7,841 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Landsdale ON B+ | 7,681 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | University ON A | 7,595 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Central St. Boniface MB B+ | 7,772 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 20 | Electoral Area B (Lazo North), Comox Valley BC A− | 7,830 | 3.9 km | 54% |
| 21 | River East MB B+ | 7,774 | 4.1 km | 52% |
| 22 | Bostwick ON B+ | 7,694 | 4.5 km | 52% |
| 23 | Fruitland ON B | 7,653 | 5.2 km | 53% |
| 24 | Blackburn Hamlet ON A | 7,606 | 6.1 km | 56% |
| 40 | Donnacona QC A | 7,785 | 24 km | 62% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bostwick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bostwick | 4.5 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Highland 2.3 km | 1.5 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| White Oaks 2.6 km | 2.5 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Westmount 2.9 km | 3.6 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Talbot 3.1 km | 4.9 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Southcrest 3.2 km | 2.7 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Lambeth 3.4 km | 7.1 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Bostwick and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Highland is the closest to care, 1.5 km to Bostwick’s 4.5 km.
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.
- 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.
- 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 Bostwick’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Bostwick
How is Bostwick’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Bostwick’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Bostwick?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Bostwick’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 79.6 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Bostwick?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Bostwick from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.3 km from the average resident of Bostwick and a pharmacy 1.6 km, as the crow flies.
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).