Health in Seaforth · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for just 45% of adults around Seaforth; the typical Canadian town: 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.7 years at birth, 83.7 for women and 79.7 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Seaforth’s is long: 7.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Seaforth grades B for health, #651 of 866 in Ontario and #1,916 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Huron Perth Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.7
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.7 · men 79.7
Nearest hospital
7.9 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Seaforth 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 (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 66% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.9 km)Better than 64% 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: #651 of 866 in Ontario and #1,916 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.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Seaforth’s, follows 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 Seaforth’s region is a typical case: 81.7 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 81.2.
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
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.1%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
7.1%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 17%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Seaforth: 7.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Seaforth’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
7.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.9 km
residents’ average distance
0.5 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
Residents of Seaforth 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.
One health region covers Seaforth and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Mitchell live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 7.9 km in Seaforth.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Seaforth itself is the trip to care.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Seaforth
How healthy is Seaforth?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Seaforth’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 Seaforth’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Seaforth from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.6 km from the average resident of Seaforth and a pharmacy 3.9 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Seaforth?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 79.7 for men around Seaforth (2022/2024).
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