Photo: Community Archives · CC0Smoking runs high around Tweed: 18% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 45% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Measured from where Tweed’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 6.0 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Tweed grades C− for health, #834 of 866 in Ontario and #2,419 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Tweed
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Tweed, a child can expect 1.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 6.7 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 43%. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
High blood pressure (28%) and diabetes (11%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Tweed sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Tweed grades C− 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: #834 of 866 in Ontario and #2,419 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 26th 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; Tweed’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.
43% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 47% very good or excellent to 51%; 27% 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.
28% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 39%, the province 30%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 17%.
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Tweed’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Tweed belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.2 predicts: 79.8 years, the trend 80.0. It is outlived by 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.2 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.
From Tweed, a hospital is 6.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Tweed, weighted by who lives there.
Tweed is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 2.4 km, while the average resident is 6.0 km away.
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Tweed comes 27th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,411 to 6,600 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 25 | Terwillegar Towne AB B | 6,478 | 4.9 km | 51% |
| 26 | Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing ON A− | 6,577 | 5.5 km | 49% |
| 27 | Tweed ON C− | 6,504 | 6.0 km | 45% |
| 28 | Royalwood MB B | 6,439 | 6.1 km | 52% |
| 29 | Cumberland AB B | 6,493 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Tweed
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweed | 6.0 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
| Centre Hastings 12 km | 13 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
| Madoc 14 km | 18 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: Tweed and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Madoc is the furthest from care, 18 km to Tweed’s 6.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Tweed’s own.
- 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.
- 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. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Tweed
How is Tweed’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Tweed has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Tweed?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Tweed?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Tweed’s health region only: 81.8 years for women and 77.8 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Tweed from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Tweed live: 15 km to a clinic, 5.9 km to 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).