Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Clairlea-Birchmount beats 90% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. What sets Clairlea-Birchmount apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Clairlea-Birchmount a grade of A, #143 of 866 in Ontario and #611 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Clairlea-Birchmount
Longer lives in the region
Clairlea-Birchmount’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 ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.8 on the deprivation index typically live 81.7 years; Clairlea-Birchmount’s region, at 84.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Clairlea-Birchmount: 0.6 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 29 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Clairlea-Birchmount is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Clairlea-Birchmount 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: #143 of 866 in Ontario and #611 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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 4th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Clairlea-Birchmount’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The region lives 3.0 years longer than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Clairlea-Birchmount’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
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; Clairlea-Birchmount’s region reaches 84.7. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group 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.
From Clairlea-Birchmount, a hospital is 1.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Clairlea-Birchmount, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Clairlea-Birchmount are closer 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.
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
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Ontario (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
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Clairlea-Birchmount is 4th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (26,673 to 28,736 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montagne QC A | 28,569 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 3 | René-Lévesque QC A | 28,061 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 4 | Clairlea-Birchmount ON A | 27,690 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 5 | South Riverdale ON A | 28,264 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 6 | Harbourfront-CityPlace ON A | 28,199 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 40 | Enfield NS D− | 26,960 | 26 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Clairlea-Birchmount
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clairlea-Birchmount | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Oakridge 1.8 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Kennedy Park 2.0 km | 2.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Birchcliffe-Cliffside 2.1 km | 2.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Ionview 2.2 km | 2.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| O'Connor-Parkview 2.3 km | 1.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Taylor-Massey 2.5 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Around Clairlea-Birchmount the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Clairlea-Birchmount itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Clairlea-Birchmount
How is Clairlea-Birchmount’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Clairlea-Birchmount’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Clairlea-Birchmount?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.2 for women, 82.0 for men around Clairlea-Birchmount (2022/2024).
How healthy is Clairlea-Birchmount?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Clairlea-Birchmount from a hospital?
For everyday care, Clairlea-Birchmount’s residents are 0.6 km from a pharmacy and 0.7 km from a clinic on average.
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).