Health in Markham · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Markham, 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 sits 3.3 km from the average resident of Markham, about the norm of 3.7 km. Smoking is about as common as in the province: 10% of adults, against 11% for Ontario.
The average resident of Markham can reach 8.5 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
No Health grade for Markham yet
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
51%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
16%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
10%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
86.3
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.3 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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 care
Getting to hospital from Markham: 3.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Markham’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
8.5 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Markham goes.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.3 years ahead of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Markham’s region is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 1.9 at 85.0 years of life; Markham’s region does better, at 86.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 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.
Conditions and habits
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
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
7.8%
Obese (self-reported)
23%
Mood disorder
11%
Anxiety disorder
9.1%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
9.8%
Ontario
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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
86.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
23.7
more years expected at 65
1st
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
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
Residential instability1.8
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition5.0
Situational vulnerability2.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Markham’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.
Health survey
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
Health very good or excellent
50%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 53% very good or excellent to 51%; 25% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Markham
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Markham’s; read across for the hospital trip.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Markham itself is the trip to care.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in Markham
What is the life expectancy in Markham?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.9 for women, 84.6 for men around Markham (2022/2024).
Does Markham have a Health grade?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Markham’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Markham?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Markham from a hospital?
Residents of Markham have a clinic 2.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.9 km away, in straight lines.
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