Rustic scores better for health than 90% 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%. What sets Rustic apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Rustic a grade of A, #131 of 866 in Ontario and #586 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rustic
Longer lives in the region
Rustic’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 ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Rustic’s region beats what its deprivation score of 2.8 predicts: 84.7 years against 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Rustic is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Rustic has 32 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 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.
Rustic 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: #131 of 866 in Ontario and #586 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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Rustic’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 3.0 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Rustic’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Rustic’s region does better with 84.7. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 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 Rustic: 0.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rustic’s own, not the region’s.
From Rustic that is nearer than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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%
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Ontario: 23%, the province 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 50% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Rustic is 3rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,322 to 9,755 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 4 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 5 | Northeast SK B+ | 9,670 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 40 | Castlegar BC B | 9,465 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rustic
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rustic | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Brookhaven-Amesbury 1.4 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Oakdale-Beverley Heights 1.5 km | 1.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Maple Leaf 1.8 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Weston 1.9 km | 1.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Pelmo Park-Humberlea 2.7 km | 2.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Downsview 2.7 km | 1.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Rustic and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Rustic alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Rustic
What is the life expectancy in Rustic?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.2 for women, 82.0 for men around Rustic (2022/2024).
How is Rustic’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Rustic’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Rustic?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Rustic from a hospital?
Residents of Rustic have a clinic 1.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.5 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).