Health in Parkhill · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
52% of adults around Parkhill rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.9 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 79.6 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Parkhill’s is long: 18 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Parkhill a grade of B, #606 of 866 in Ontario and #1,845 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Distance is Parkhill’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 18 km. 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.
Health Grade
Parkhill grades B 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 (52%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 90% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.9)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (18 km)Better than 31% 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: #606 of 866 in Ontario and #1,845 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 care
The nearest hospital is 18 km from the average home in Parkhill
Straight-line distances from each part of Parkhill, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
18 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.9 km
residents’ average distance
0.4 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Parkhill is on the far side.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Parkhill’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 2.7 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Parkhill belongs to reaches 81.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.3. Judged by income, around $80,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
81.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
9th
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
The region comes 9th 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
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency2.8
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability2.1
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Parkhill’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
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (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
53%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
59%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 53% against 51%, and 22% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Parkhill is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,704 to 7,022 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
Forest falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 80.0 against 81.9 here. Residents of Forest live nearer a hospital, at 6.8 km against 18 km in Parkhill.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Parkhill shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Parkhill
How far is Parkhill from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Parkhill is 9.5 km from a clinic and 3.9 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Parkhill?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.2 for women, 79.6 for men around Parkhill (2022/2024).
How healthy is Parkhill?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How is Parkhill’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Parkhill: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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