Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Danforth is ahead of 90% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). What sets Danforth apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Danforth a grade of A, #143 of 866 in Ontario and #611 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Danforth
Longer lives in the region
Born around Danforth, a child can expect 3.2 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 23.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would put Danforth’s region near 81.7 years; it reaches 84.7. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Danforth: 0.6 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Danforth has 56 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.2 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Danforth 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.
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
The region comes 4th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Danforth’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.
3.0 years above the line for regions this deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Danforth’s region’s dot is above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Danforth’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.0 km from the average home in Danforth
Straight-line distances from each part of Danforth, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Danforth is on the near side.
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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Ontario’s 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 reads like the rest of Ontario: 50% against 51%, and 22% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Danforth comes 2nd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,186 to 9,548 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 2 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 3 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 4 | Manor Park ON A+ | 9,491 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Danforth
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Danforth | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Danforth East York 0.4 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Old East York 1.2 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Blake-Jones 1.4 km | 1.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woodbine Corridor 1.4 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Greenwood-Coxwell 1.4 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woodbine-Lumsden 1.7 km | 1.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Danforth and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Danforth shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Danforth
How is Danforth’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Danforth: 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 Danforth?
For the health region that includes Danforth, women can expect 87.2 years and men 82.0 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Danforth?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Danforth from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Danforth is 0.4 km from a clinic and 0.2 km from a pharmacy.
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).