Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Health in Birchcliffe-Cliffside beats 87% of Canadian towns
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 50% against 51%. For Birchcliffe-Cliffside itself the measure is access: 2.7 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Birchcliffe-Cliffside grades A for health, #290 of 866 in Ontario and #857 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Birchcliffe-Cliffside
Life expectancy above the norm
Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s region sits 3.2 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 23.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 2.8, the trend across regions gives 81.7 years of life; Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s region reaches 84.7. For its deprivation ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Birchcliffe-Cliffside has 23 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Birchcliffe-Cliffside grades A 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: #290 of 866 in Ontario and #857 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 4th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
3.0 more years of life than regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s region is above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 2.8 on the index, the line expects 81.7 years; Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s region reaches 84.7. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 81.1.
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.
Getting to hospital from Birchcliffe-Cliffside: 2.7 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Birchcliffe-Cliffside, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Birchcliffe-Cliffside sits near the middle.
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 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Ontario: 23%, the province 30%.
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.
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
Mental health is no outlier: 50% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Birchcliffe-Cliffside is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,408 to 23,858 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 1.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Ouest (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 23,373 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 23 | Cobourg ON C+ | 22,529 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 24 | Westmount NS B+ | 23,207 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 25 | Birchcliffe-Cliffside ON A | 23,115 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 26 | Etobicoke City Centre ON A | 23,856 | 3.0 km | 50% |
| 27 | Brownsville BC A | 23,515 | 3.0 km | 50% |
| 40 | Embrun ON C | 23,655 | 21 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Birchcliffe-Cliffside
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birchcliffe-Cliffside | 2.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Oakridge 1.2 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Clairlea-Birchmount 2.1 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Taylor-Massey 2.4 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| East End-Danforth 3.0 km | 2.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| O'Connor-Parkview 3.1 km | 1.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Kennedy Park 3.5 km | 2.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Birchcliffe-Cliffside from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Birchcliffe-Cliffside itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Birchcliffe-Cliffside
What is the life expectancy in Birchcliffe-Cliffside?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s health region only: 87.2 years for women and 82.0 for men (2022/2024).
How is Birchcliffe-Cliffside’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Birchcliffe-Cliffside has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Birchcliffe-Cliffside?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Birchcliffe-Cliffside from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.7 km from the average resident of Birchcliffe-Cliffside and a pharmacy 0.5 km, as the crow flies.
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).