Photo: Can Pac Swire from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Health in East End-Danforth beats 88% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Measured from where East End-Danforth’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.1 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. East End-Danforth grades A for health, #254 of 866 in Ontario and #792 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in East End-Danforth
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around East End-Danforth 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 ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 2.8, the trend across regions gives 81.7 years of life; East End-Danforth’s region reaches 84.7. For its deprivation ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 48 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.4 km off, East End-Danforth is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
East End-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: #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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for East End-Danforth’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.0 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; East End-Danforth’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 East End-Danforth’s region beats it: 84.7 years against the 81.7 the trend gives a score of 2.8. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median 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.
Getting to hospital from East End-Danforth: 2.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is East End-Danforth’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, East End-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
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.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, East End-Danforth is 20th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 21,568 to 22,546 people, median 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 18 | Brentwood BC A | 22,170 | 2.0 km | 48% |
| 19 | Rivière-des-Prairies QC A | 21,852 | 2.1 km | 54% |
| 20 | East End-Danforth ON A | 22,055 | 2.1 km | 50% |
| 21 | Sandalwood East (mountainash) ON A− | 21,801 | 2.4 km | 49% |
| 22 | Cobourg ON C+ | 22,529 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around East End-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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| East End-Danforth | 2.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woodbine-Lumsden 1.2 km | 1.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woodbine Corridor 1.2 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Taylor-Massey 1.3 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| The Beaches 1.4 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Oakridge 2.1 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Greenwood-Coxwell 2.1 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
The neighbours all sit in East End-Danforth’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for East End-Danforth itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in East End-Danforth
How is East End-Danforth’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus East End-Danforth’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in East End-Danforth?
Women in East End-Danforth’s region live to 87.2 on average and men to 82.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is East End-Danforth?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is East End-Danforth from a hospital?
For everyday care, East End-Danforth’s residents are 0.4 km from a pharmacy and 1.1 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).