Photo: Rick Harris from Toronto, Ontario, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Uxbridge, 50% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 82.6 years on average: women 84.7, men 80.5, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Uxbridge live 4.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Uxbridge grades B for health, #542 of 866 in Ontario and #1,674 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Uxbridge
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 23% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Uxbridge’s region sits 1.1 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Uxbridge grades B 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: #542 of 866 in Ontario and #1,674 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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 7th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Uxbridge’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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 36%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Uxbridge’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.5, the expected figure is 82.8 years, and Uxbridge’s region matches it closely with 82.6. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 82.7 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 Uxbridge: 4.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Uxbridge’s own, not the region’s.
From Uxbridge that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.3 km, while the average resident is 4.7 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 50% 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
Asked about their mental health, 52% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 24% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Uxbridge is 32nd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 22,012 to 23,207 people, median 2.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 30 | Kingsview Village-The Westway ON A | 22,026 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 31 | Berczy Village ON A | 22,149 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 32 | Uxbridge ON B | 22,618 | 4.7 km | 50% |
| 33 | Willowridge-Martingrove-Richview ON A− | 22,456 | 4.8 km | 50% |
| 34 | Riverview NB B− | 22,614 | 5.0 km | 43% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Uxbridge
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Uxbridge | 4.7 km | 50% | 82.6 | B |
| Port Perry 18 km | 5.8 km | 50% | 82.6 | B |
| Stouffville 18 km | 10 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Stouffville’s life expectancy is 86.3, this region’s 82.6. Residents of Stouffville live further from a hospital, at 10 km against 4.7 km in Uxbridge.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Uxbridge alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Uxbridge
How is Uxbridge’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Uxbridge has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Uxbridge?
There is no figure for Uxbridge alone; its health region’s is 84.7 for women and 80.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Uxbridge?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
How far is Uxbridge from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Uxbridge live: 15 km to a clinic, 3.3 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).