Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Brown's Corners’ region outlives the typical Canadian town by 4.8 years: life expectancy 86.3
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Brown's Corners apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.2 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Brown's Corners a grade of A−, #333 of 866 in Ontario and #943 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Brown's Corners
Deprivation runs low
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Brown's Corners at 1.5 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Brown's Corners can reach 9.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Brown's Corners 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: #333 of 866 in Ontario and #943 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 6.2 km from the average home in Brown's Corners
Straight-line distances from each part of Brown's Corners, 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, Brown's Corners 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Brown's Corners 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.
The region lives 1.3 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Brown's Corners’ region comes out above the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 1.9 on the index, the line expects 85.0 years; Brown's Corners’ region reaches 86.3. 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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 23% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs under the province, 9.8% 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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Asked about their mental health, 53% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 25% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Brown's Corners comes 30th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,101 to 7,359 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Raleigh ON B | 7,113 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 28 | Chandler QC B− | 7,323 | 4.8 km | 56% |
| 29 | Cougar Ridge AB A | 7,101 | 5.6 km | 56% |
| 30 | Brown's Corners ON A− | 7,228 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 31 | Erin Woods AB A | 7,245 | 6.3 km | 56% |
| 32 | Wainfleet ON C+ | 7,329 | 10 km | 49% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Brown's Corners
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners | 6.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Buttonville 1.8 km | 6.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Unionville 2.4 km | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cachet 3.4 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Underwood 3.9 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hagerman's Corners 4.2 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Milliken 4.2 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Brown's Corners and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Milliken live nearer a hospital, at 3.0 km against 6.2 km in Brown's Corners.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Brown's Corners itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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 Brown's Corners
What is the life expectancy in Brown's Corners?
Women in Brown's Corners’ region live to 87.9 on average and men to 84.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Brown's Corners’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Brown's Corners’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Brown's Corners from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Brown's Corners live: 1.9 km to a clinic, 0.8 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Brown's Corners?
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.
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).