Health in Tavistock · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
49% of adults around Tavistock rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 80.6 on average: 83.0 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024. For Tavistock itself the measure is access, and it lags: 12 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Tavistock a grade of C+, #711 of 866 in Ontario and #2,099 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Tavistock’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Tavistock 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.
Very good or excellent health (49%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 59% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.6)Better than 49% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 50% 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: #711 of 866 in Ontario and #2,099 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 12 km from the average home in Tavistock
Straight-line distances from each part of Tavistock, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
10 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.7 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
Tavistock is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Tavistock’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Tavistock’s region’s: 80.6 years where the line expects 81.4 at 2.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 81.4 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
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% 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
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
38%
Mood disorder
20%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.9%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 38% of adults against 30% for 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.
The wider area
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.
80.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
21st
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
This region is 21st longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency2.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability1.7
This is the one part of the block measured for Tavistock itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
49% 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
49%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
50%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
63%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
Mental health is close to the province’s: 50% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Tavistock is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,523 to 8,907 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
Only the hospital column is local here: Tavistock and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Woodstock is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Tavistock’s 12 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Tavistock’s own.
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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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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Tavistock
How is Tavistock’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Tavistock’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Tavistock from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Tavistock is 10 km from a clinic and 4.7 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Tavistock?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Tavistock?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.2 for men around Tavistock (2022/2024).
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