Photo: SimonP · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Humber Summit for health: it beats 86% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 50% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Humber Summit live 3.2 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Humber Summit a grade of A, #310 of 866 in Ontario and #894 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Humber Summit
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Humber Summit 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 ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 84.7 years, Humber Summit’s region outlives the 81.7 that regions scoring 2.8 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 23 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.4 km off, Humber Summit is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Humber Summit 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: #310 of 866 in Ontario and #894 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
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Humber Summit’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 3.0 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Humber Summit’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.8, Humber Summit’s region would be expected to reach 81.7 years; it reaches 84.7. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 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.
From Humber Summit, a hospital is 3.2 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Humber Summit’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Humber Summit travel about as far as 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.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Humber Summit is 14th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,951 to 12,432 people, median 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 12 | Chalmers MB B+ | 12,384 | 2.9 km | 52% |
| 13 | Milliken ON A | 12,138 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 14 | Humber Summit ON A | 12,194 | 3.2 km | 50% |
| 15 | River Park South MB B+ | 12,304 | 3.5 km | 52% |
| 16 | Etobicoke West Mall ON A− | 12,218 | 4.0 km | 50% |
| 40 | Wetaskiwin County No. 10 AB C− | 12,117 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Humber Summit
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Humber Summit | 3.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Thistletown-Beaumond Heights 1.5 km | 2.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Mount Olive-Silverstone-Jamestown 1.8 km | 2.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Humbermede 1.9 km | 2.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Rexdale-Kipling 3.4 km | 2.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woodbridge 3.5 km | 5.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| West Humber-Clairville 3.6 km | 1.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Woodbridge falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 86.3 against 84.7 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Humber Summit’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Humber Summit
What is the life expectancy in Humber Summit?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.2 for women, 82.0 for men around Humber Summit (2022/2024).
How healthy is Humber Summit?
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 is Humber Summit’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Humber Summit’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Humber Summit from a hospital?
Residents of Humber Summit have a clinic 1.4 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.4 km away, in straight lines.
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).