Photo: Doug Kerr · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Rockland’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.0, with women at 83.0 and men at 78.9. For Rockland itself the measure is access, and it lags: 15 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Rockland a grade of C, #778 of 866 in Ontario and #2,242 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rockland
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Rockland the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Rockland is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Rockland 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: #778 of 866 in Ontario and #2,242 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 Rockland: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rockland’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Rockland travel further than 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.
High blood pressure for 23% 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: 39%, the province 30%. At 22%, 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Rockland’s region is near the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.2 about 80.3 years; Rockland’s region’s 81.0 is within a year of it. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 81.0 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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, 18th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Rockland’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% 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
Asked about their mental health, 53% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 27% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Rockland comes 39th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 28,848 to 32,069 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Marie-Victorin QC A | 28,904 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 37 | Elmira ON A− | 31,382 | 12 km | 53% |
| 38 | Portobello South ON A | 29,960 | 13 km | 56% |
| 39 | Rockland ON C | 30,375 | 15 km | 49% |
| 40 | Conception Bay South NL C+ | 29,725 | 17 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rockland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rockland | 15 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Thurso 7.7 km | 13 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Lochaber-Partie-Ouest 12 km | 6.7 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Cumberland 14 km | 10 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Plaisance 14 km | 9.8 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Vallée-de-la-Lièvre 15 km | 1.7 km | 55% | 80.7 | B+ |
| L'Ange-Gardien 17 km | 4.3 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
Thurso falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 80.7 against 81.0 here. Residents of Vallée-de-la-Lièvre live nearer a hospital, at 1.7 km against 15 km in Rockland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Rockland itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Rockland
How far is Rockland from a hospital?
A clinic is 5.4 km from the average resident of Rockland and a pharmacy 2.4 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Rockland?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Rockland?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Rockland’s health region only: 83.0 years for women and 78.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Rockland’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 Rockland’s homes are from a hospital, against 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).