Photo: Derek Hatfield from Peterborough, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Norwood, 47% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.5, women 82.8 and men 78.1 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 18 km from the average resident of Norwood, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Norwood a grade of C−, #820 of 866 in Ontario and #2,345 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Norwood
A long way to hospital
Residents of Norwood live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (17 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Norwood is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Norwood, a child can expect 1.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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.
Norwood 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: #820 of 866 in Ontario and #2,345 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 18 km from the average home in Norwood
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Norwood’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, Norwood 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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Norwood’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Norwood’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.9 about 81.1 years; Norwood’s region’s 80.5 is within a year of it. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 6 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.2 years. On income alone, around $80,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (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
Stress touches 27% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 49%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Norwood is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,215 to 5,393 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Billings Bridge - Heron Park ON A+ | 5,370 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 3 | Waverley Heights MB B+ | 5,252 | 1.1 km | 52% |
| 33 | Lake Echo NS B | 5,223 | 15 km | 51% |
| 34 | Windsor QC A− | 5,368 | 17 km | 57% |
| 35 | Norwood ON C− | 5,308 | 18 km | 47% |
| 36 | Upper Tantallon NS B− | 5,248 | 20 km | 51% |
| 37 | Electoral Area L, Cariboo BC C | 5,358 | 20 km | 48% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Norwood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norwood | 18 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Havelock 11 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
| Campbellford 14 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Douro-Dummer 16 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.5 | C− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Campbellford’s life expectancy is 81.0, this region’s 80.5. Residents of Campbellford live nearer a hospital, at 8.0 km against 18 km in Norwood.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Norwood’s own.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Norwood
How far is Norwood from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Norwood live: 17 km to a clinic, 2.9 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Norwood?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Norwood?
Women in Norwood’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 78.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Norwood’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Norwood: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).