Photo: Jean7031 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run long around Cachet: 86.3 years, 4.8 more than the typical Canadian town’s region
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cachet’s is long: 6.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Cachet a grade of A−, #341 of 866 in Ontario and #955 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cachet
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Cachet’s neighbourhoods average 1.1 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Cachet has 4.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.2 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cachet 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: #341 of 866 in Ontario and #955 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 6.7 km from the average home in Cachet
Straight-line distances from each part of Cachet, weighted by who lives there.
Cachet 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
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
No region of the 34 in Ontario lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 73.7, a gap of 12.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Cachet’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
1.3 more years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Cachet’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
At 1.9 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 85.0 years, and the region Cachet belongs to 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is rarer (9.8% against 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 close to the province’s: 53% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 25% find most days quite 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: Cachet comes 24th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,260 to 6,468 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 22 | Royalwood MB B | 6,439 | 6.1 km | 52% |
| 23 | The Orchards At Ellerslie AB B | 6,267 | 6.5 km | 51% |
| 24 | Cachet ON A− | 6,361 | 6.7 km | 51% |
| 25 | Les Coteaux QC A | 6,294 | 7.3 km | 55% |
| 26 | Pointe-Calumet QC A | 6,427 | 7.8 km | 60% |
| 40 | Lanark Highlands ON C+ | 6,370 | 21 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cachet
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cachet | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Berczy Village 1.8 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Unionville 2.2 km | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Buttonville 2.6 km | 6.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Quantztown 3.1 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Brown's Corners 3.4 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Cathedraltown 3.9 km | 6.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
One health region covers Cachet and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Quantztown live nearer a hospital, at 3.0 km against 6.7 km in Cachet.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Cachet shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cachet
What is the life expectancy in Cachet?
For the health region that includes Cachet, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
How is Cachet’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Cachet’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Cachet from a hospital?
For everyday care, Cachet’s residents are 1.2 km from a pharmacy and 3.1 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Cachet?
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.
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).