Health in McNab/Braeside · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around McNab/Braeside: 16% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Measured from where McNab/Braeside’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.3 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for McNab/Braeside is C, #777 of 866 in Ontario and #2,240 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Renfrew County and District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 27% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.4, would put McNab/Braeside’s region near 79.2 years; it reaches 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
McNab/Braeside grades C for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (50%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (8.3 km)Better than 62% of Canadian towns
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: #777 of 866 in Ontario and #2,240 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.
For its deprivation
1.8 years above the line for regions this deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); McNab/Braeside’s region is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet McNab/Braeside’s region beats it: 81.0 years against the 79.2 the trend gives a score of 3.4. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 79.1 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
High blood pressure for 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
27%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
15%
Heavy drinking
26%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 26% 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 8.3 km from the average home in McNab/Braeside
Straight-line distances from each part of McNab/Braeside, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
8.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
7.1 km
residents’ average distance
0.8 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
From McNab/Braeside that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.1
more years expected at 65
18th
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
Ranked 18th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.7
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability2.6
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; McNab/Braeside’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
48%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
55%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
21%
Strong sense of belonging
74%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
Mental health beats Ontario as well: 55% very good or excellent to 51%, with 21% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
McNab/Braeside is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,216 to 8,463 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.2 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Bristol’s life expectancy is 80.7, this region’s 81.0. Residents of Arnprior live nearer a hospital, at 1.6 km against 8.3 km in McNab/Braeside.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: McNab/Braeside shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in McNab/Braeside
How is McNab/Braeside’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for McNab/Braeside: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is McNab/Braeside from a hospital?
Residents of McNab/Braeside have a clinic 7.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.1 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is McNab/Braeside?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in McNab/Braeside?
Women in McNab/Braeside’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 78.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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