Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Newmarket, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.5 km from the average resident of Newmarket, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Newmarket a grade of A, #230 of 866 in Ontario and #751 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Newmarket
Plenty of pharmacies
With 14 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.8 km off, Newmarket is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Newmarket 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: #230 of 866 in Ontario and #751 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 Newmarket: 2.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Newmarket’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Newmarket travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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); Newmarket’s region is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 1.9 on the index, the line expects 85.0 years; Newmarket’s region 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.
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Newmarket’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 50% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (53% to 51%), the region has 25% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Newmarket is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 74,621 to 126,872 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria BC A+ | 103,888 | 1.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Chomedey QC A | 81,813 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 4 | Saint-Jérôme QC A+ | 85,160 | 2.1 km | 60% |
| 5 | Airdrie AB A+ | 92,544 | 2.3 km | 56% |
| 6 | Newmarket ON A | 95,763 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 7 | St. Albert AB B+ | 74,621 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 8 | Moncton NB B− | 102,378 | 2.7 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Newmarket
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Newmarket | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Aurora 5.4 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| East Gwillimbury 7.3 km | 6.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Bradford 11 km | 8.5 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| King 15 km | 12 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Stouffville 18 km | 10 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Cathedraltown 18 km | 6.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
Bradford falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.5 against 86.3 here. King is the furthest from care, 12 km to Newmarket’s 2.5 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 Newmarket’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Newmarket
What is the life expectancy in Newmarket?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Newmarket’s health region only: 87.9 years for women and 84.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Newmarket’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Newmarket’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Newmarket?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Newmarket from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.4 km from the average resident of Newmarket and a pharmacy 0.8 km, as the crow flies.
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).