Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Broadview North scores better for health than 88% of Canadian towns
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 50% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. For Broadview North itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Broadview North grades A for health, #254 of 866 in Ontario and #792 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Broadview North
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Broadview North runs 3.2 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 23.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would put Broadview North’s region near 81.7 years; it reaches 84.7. For its deprivation ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Broadview North has 51 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.4 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.
Broadview North 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: #254 of 866 in Ontario and #792 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 4th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Broadview North’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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 3.0 years ahead of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Broadview North’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Broadview North’s region beats it: 84.7 years against the 81.7 the trend gives a score of 2.8. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.1 km from the average home in Broadview North
Straight-line distances from each part of Broadview North, weighted by who lives there.
Broadview North is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 23% 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.
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 51% to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (50% to 51%), the region has 22% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Broadview North is 14th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (10,845 to 11,333 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 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 | Bendale South ON A | 10,885 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 12 | Whitehorn AB A+ | 11,273 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 13 | Norquay Village BC A+ | 11,287 | 1.6 km | 50% |
| 14 | Broadview North ON A | 11,080 | 2.1 km | 50% |
| 15 | Forest Hill South ON A | 11,059 | 2.3 km | 50% |
| 16 | Montmagny QC A | 11,326 | 2.4 km | 59% |
| 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 Broadview North
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadview North | 2.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Playter Estates-Danforth 1.1 km | 1.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Old East York 1.4 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Danforth East York 1.6 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Thorncliffe Park 1.8 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Danforth 1.8 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| North Riverdale 1.8 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Every place around Broadview North shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Broadview North alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Broadview North
How is Broadview North’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Broadview North: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Broadview North?
For the health region that includes Broadview North, women can expect 87.2 years and men 82.0 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Broadview North?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Broadview North from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.2 km from the average resident of Broadview North and a pharmacy 0.4 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).