Photo: Deinocheirus · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Beaverbrook for health: it beats 92% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 51% for Ontario. For Beaverbrook itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Beaverbrook grades A for health, #80 of 866 in Ontario and #442 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaverbrook
Longer lives in the region
Beaverbrook’s region sits 2.2 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes less
Smoking is rarer around Beaverbrook than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 5.9% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.1 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Beaverbrook can reach 6.9 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.2 km off. 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.
Beaverbrook 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: #80 of 866 in Ontario and #442 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.
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 5th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
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 Beaverbrook’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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.6%
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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 30% across Ontario.
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.
56% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in 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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 50% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 25%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 7.3 km from the average home in Beaverbrook
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beaverbrook’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, Beaverbrook 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Beaverbrook’s, follows the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Beaverbrook belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.7 years, the trend 83.6. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 83.0 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.
Beaverbrook is 28th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,617 to 6,914 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 2 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Hillsdale SK B+ | 6,792 | 1.2 km | 49% |
| 26 | Klarvatten AB B | 6,773 | 5.4 km | 51% |
| 27 | The Estates of Rainbow Creek ON A− | 6,822 | 6.3 km | 51% |
| 28 | Beaverbrook ON A | 6,762 | 7.3 km | 56% |
| 29 | Anniedale BC A | 6,715 | 7.7 km | 50% |
| 30 | Annapolis County, Subdivision A NS D | 6,719 | 8.5 km | 44% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaverbrook
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverbrook | 7.3 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Katimavik-Hazeldean 2.2 km | 7.5 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Kanata Lakes 2.5 km | 8.7 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant 4.1 km | 5.6 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Glen Cairn 4.6 km | 7.9 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Bells Corners West 5.0 km | 3.1 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Bridlewood - Emerald Meadows 5.5 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
Beaverbrook and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Bells Corners West live nearer a hospital, at 3.1 km against 7.3 km in Beaverbrook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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 Beaverbrook’s own.
Questions about health in Beaverbrook
How is Beaverbrook’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Beaverbrook’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Beaverbrook?
For the health region that includes Beaverbrook, women can expect 85.7 years and men 81.6 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Beaverbrook?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Beaverbrook from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Beaverbrook live: 3.2 km to a clinic, 1.2 km to a pharmacy.
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).