Photo: P199 · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 47% of adults in Millbrook’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.5, with women at 82.8 and men at 78.1. For Millbrook itself the measure is access, and it lags: 15 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Millbrook a grade of C, #813 of 866 in Ontario and #2,327 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Millbrook
Far from a hospital
Distance is Millbrook’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Millbrook is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Millbrook’s region sits 1.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Millbrook 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.
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: #813 of 866 in Ontario and #2,327 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 15 km from the average home in Millbrook
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Millbrook’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Millbrook 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 40%, the province 30%. At 23%, heavy drinking beats 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 22nd of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Millbrook’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Millbrook’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Millbrook belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 80.5 years, the trend 81.1. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 6 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle. Its towns’ household income, about $80,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 0.14).
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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% 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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 49% very good or excellent to 51%; 27% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Millbrook comes 37th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,309 to 11,715 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milton-Parc QC A | 11,369 | 0.2 km | 54% |
| 2 | New Toronto ON A | 11,502 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Banff AB A+ | 11,402 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 35 | Morden MB C+ | 11,578 | 14 km | 51% |
| 36 | Drayton ON B | 11,518 | 15 km | 51% |
| 37 | Millbrook ON C | 11,507 | 15 km | 47% |
| 38 | Pont-Rouge QC A | 11,339 | 18 km | 62% |
| 39 | Dundalk ON C | 11,599 | 19 km | 48% |
| 40 | Farnham QC A− | 11,315 | 20 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Millbrook
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millbrook | 15 km | 47% | 80.5 | C |
| Otonabee-South Monaghan 16 km | 13 km | 47% | 80.5 | C |
| Peterborough 16 km | 2.8 km | 47% | 80.5 | C+ |
One health region covers Millbrook and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Peterborough live nearer a hospital, at 2.8 km against 15 km in Millbrook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Millbrook shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Millbrook
How far is Millbrook from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Millbrook live: 15 km to a clinic, 11 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Millbrook?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Millbrook’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Millbrook has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Millbrook?
Women in Millbrook’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 78.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).