Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 3.0Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Box Grove, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 51% against 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.5 km from the average resident of Box Grove, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Box Grove grades A for health, #230 of 866 in Ontario and #751 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Box Grove
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Box Grove has 6.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Box Grove 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: #230 of 866 in Ontario and #751 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 Box Grove, a hospital is 2.5 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Box Grove’s own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Box Grove is ordinary: 3.3 km is the typical figure in Ontario, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.3 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Box Grove’s region is above the line.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Box Grove’s region sits above it: 86.3 years where a score of 1.9 predicts 85.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 83.5 years).
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 (21%) and diabetes (7.8%)
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Ontario: 23%, the province 30%. At 9.8%, heavy drinking trails the provincial 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
This is the longest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years ahead of the last at 73.7.
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 Box Grove’s own areas.
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: 50% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 25% live with stressful days.
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: Box Grove comes 16th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 24,266 to 26,862 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Loyola QC A | 26,607 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 2 | Sault-au-Récollet QC A | 25,464 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 3 | Cartierville QC A | 24,617 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 14 | Candiac QC A | 24,920 | 2.2 km | 55% |
| 15 | Morningside Heights ON A | 24,972 | 2.3 km | 50% |
| 16 | Box Grove ON A | 25,496 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 17 | West London ON A− | 24,322 | 2.5 km | 52% |
| 18 | Agincourt South-Malvern West ON A | 24,438 | 2.8 km | 50% |
| 40 | Saint-Lin--Laurentides QC B | 26,673 | 20 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Box Grove
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Box Grove | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Vinegar Hill 1.8 km | 2.1 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Markham Village 3.2 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cornell 4.0 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 4.1 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hagerman's Corners 4.3 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Morningside Heights 4.6 km | 2.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Morningside Heights’s life expectancy is 84.7, this region’s 86.3.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Box Grove alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Box Grove
What is the life expectancy in Box Grove?
Women in Box Grove’s region live to 87.9 on average and men to 84.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Box Grove’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 Box Grove’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Box Grove?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Box Grove from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Box Grove is 3.2 km from a clinic and 0.8 km from 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).