Photo: Skytrain3514 at English Wikipedia · Public domainThornbury’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Thornbury’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Thornbury a grade of C+, #764 of 866 in Ontario and #2,216 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Thornbury
A long way to hospital
Distance is Thornbury’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs low
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Thornbury at 1.3 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.
Thornbury 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: #764 of 866 in Ontario and #2,216 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 Thornbury: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Thornbury’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Thornbury 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 13th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Thornbury’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Thornbury’s region comes out on the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.7 years; Thornbury’s region’s 81.3 is within a year of it. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 6 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.1 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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9%
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: 37%, the province 30%. At 23%, 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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 49% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Thornbury comes 35th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 10,966 to 11,365 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cabbagetown-South St.James Town ON A | 11,205 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Penetanguishene ON A− | 11,141 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Vieux Greenfield Park QC A | 10,998 | 1.1 km | 55% |
| 33 | Timberlea NS B | 11,014 | 10 km | 51% |
| 34 | Lethbridge County AB C+ | 10,988 | 11 km | 52% |
| 35 | Thornbury ON C+ | 11,162 | 12 km | 48% |
| 36 | Liverpool NS D | 10,997 | 13 km | 44% |
| 37 | Lacombe County AB C | 11,072 | 15 km | 52% |
| 40 | Yellowhead County AB D− | 10,966 | 27 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Thornbury
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thornbury | 12 km | 48% | 81.3 | C+ |
| Collingwood 17 km | 2.3 km | 54% | 81.5 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Collingwood’s life expectancy is 81.5, this region’s 81.3. Residents of Collingwood live nearer a hospital, at 2.3 km against 12 km in Thornbury.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Thornbury 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Thornbury
How is Thornbury’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Thornbury: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Thornbury from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Thornbury live: 16 km to a clinic, 4.9 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Thornbury?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Thornbury?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.9 for men around Thornbury (2022/2024).
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).