Health in Puslinch · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Puslinch, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 82.4 years at birth, 84.5 for women and 80.2 for men. For Puslinch itself the measure is access, and it lags: 11 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Puslinch is B, #595 of 866 in Ontario and #1,826 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 0% of homes in Puslinch the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Easier circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Puslinch at 1.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Puslinch 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 (51%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 56% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.4)Better than 79% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (11 km)Better than 53% 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: #595 of 866 in Ontario and #1,826 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
Getting to hospital from Puslinch: 11 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Puslinch, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
11 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
5.4 km
residents’ average distance
0.1 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
From Puslinch that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
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.
82.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.9
more years expected at 65
8th
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 8th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.4
Economic dependency2.9
Ethno-cultural composition2.9
Situational vulnerability1.1
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Puslinch’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.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Puslinch’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Puslinch’s region is a typical case: 82.4 years at a score of 2.4, where the trend says 83.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 8 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.3%)
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
19%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
31%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
9.5%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
At 31%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
Health survey
51% 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
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 49% against 51%, and 23% 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
Puslinch is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,419 to 8,737 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Freelton’s life expectancy is 81.2, this region’s 82.4. Guelph is the closest to care, 3.3 km to Puslinch’s 11 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Puslinch shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Puslinch
How is Puslinch’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Puslinch’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Puslinch from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.1 km from the average resident of Puslinch and a pharmacy 5.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Puslinch?
For the health region that includes Puslinch, women can expect 84.5 years and men 80.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Puslinch?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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