Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Buttonville, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 6.6 km from the average resident of Buttonville, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Buttonville is A−, #336 of 866 in Ontario and #950 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Buttonville
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.4 out of 5, Buttonville sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Buttonville has 7.6 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Buttonville 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: #336 of 866 in Ontario and #950 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 to hospital from Buttonville: 6.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Buttonville’s own, not the region’s.
Buttonville 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Buttonville’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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.3 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Buttonville’s region is above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Buttonville’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.8% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Ontario (30%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 9.8% to the province’s 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.
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 50% to 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Buttonville is 29th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,751 to 15,263 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Carleton Place ON B | 14,837 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Lairet QC A+ | 15,251 | 1.2 km | 62% |
| 27 | Orsainville QC A+ | 14,751 | 6.0 km | 62% |
| 28 | Middle Sackville NS B | 14,898 | 6.4 km | 51% |
| 29 | Buttonville ON A− | 15,001 | 6.6 km | 51% |
| 30 | Central Elgin ON B− | 15,230 | 6.8 km | 49% |
| 31 | Chappelle AB B | 14,815 | 7.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Whistler BC A | 15,090 | 48 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Buttonville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buttonville | 6.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Brown's Corners 1.8 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Cachet 2.6 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Unionville 3.0 km | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cathedraltown 3.7 km | 6.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Berczy Village 4.3 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Quantztown 5.0 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
One health region covers Buttonville and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Quantztown is the closest to care, 3.0 km to Buttonville’s 6.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Buttonville’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Buttonville
What is the life expectancy in Buttonville?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Buttonville’s health region only: 87.9 years for women and 84.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Buttonville from a hospital?
For everyday care, Buttonville’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy and 2.2 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Buttonville?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How is Buttonville’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Buttonville: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).