Photo: Richard Eriksson from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0For health, Trinity-Bellwoods is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Trinity-Bellwoods is well placed: 0.5 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Trinity-Bellwoods grades A for health, #100 of 866 in Ontario and #504 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Trinity-Bellwoods
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Trinity-Bellwoods 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 ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would put Trinity-Bellwoods’ 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 Trinity-Bellwoods: 0.9 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Trinity-Bellwoods has 111 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 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.
Trinity-Bellwoods 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: #100 of 866 in Ontario and #504 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
Ranked 4th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
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 Trinity-Bellwoods’ own areas.
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
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Trinity-Bellwoods’ dot is marked, above the line.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Trinity-Bellwoods’ region sits above it: 84.7 years where a score of 2.8 predicts 81.7. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure 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.
The nearest hospital is 0.5 km from the average home in Trinity-Bellwoods
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Trinity-Bellwoods’ own, not the region’s.
From Trinity-Bellwoods 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
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%)
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Trinity-Bellwoods comes 2nd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,338 to 16,036 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Little Portugal ON A | 15,669 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 4 | Newtonbrook East ON A | 15,996 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Trinity-Bellwoods
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trinity-Bellwoods | 0.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Palmerston-Little Italy 0.8 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| West Queen West 1.0 km | 0.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Little Portugal 1.0 km | 0.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| University 1.4 km | 0.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Dufferin Grove 1.6 km | 1.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Kensington-Chinatown 1.8 km | 0.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Same region, same survey: Trinity-Bellwoods’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Trinity-Bellwoods shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Trinity-Bellwoods
What is the life expectancy in Trinity-Bellwoods?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Trinity-Bellwoods’ health region only: 87.2 years for women and 82.0 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Trinity-Bellwoods?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Trinity-Bellwoods from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Trinity-Bellwoods is 0.7 km from a clinic and 0.3 km from a pharmacy.
How is Trinity-Bellwoods’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Trinity-Bellwoods’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).