Health in Crossroads · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Crossroads, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario’s 51%. What sets Crossroads apart within its region is distance, and at 4.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Crossroads is A, #316 of 866 in Ontario and #904 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
The average resident of Crossroads can reach 8.7 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.6 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Crossroads 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 43% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Smokers (10%)Better than 91% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (86.3)Better than almost every Canadian town
Distance to a hospital (4.8 km)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
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: #316 of 866 in Ontario and #904 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Crossroads: 4.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Crossroads’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
4.8 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
8.7 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Crossroads is on the far side.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Crossroads’ lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 1.9, the expected figure is 85.0 years, and Crossroads’ region does better with 86.3. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 83.5 years in the middle.
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.8%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
21%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
7.8%
Obese (self-reported)
23%
Mood disorder
11%
Anxiety disorder
9.1%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
9.8%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Ontario (30%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 9.8% to the province’s 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
86.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
23.7
more years expected at 65
1st
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
Top of the 34 regions in Ontario: the lowest figure is 73.7, 12.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.4
Economic dependency1.9
Ethno-cultural composition5.0
Situational vulnerability1.8
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Crossroads’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (51%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
50%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (53% against 51%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Crossroads is 22nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,454 to 4,594 people, median 4.1 km.
The neighbours all sit in Crossroads’ health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Crossroads alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
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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 Crossroads
What is the life expectancy in Crossroads?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.9 for women, 84.6 for men around Crossroads (2022/2024).
How is Crossroads’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Crossroads has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Crossroads?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Crossroads from a hospital?
For everyday care, Crossroads’ residents are 0.6 km from a pharmacy and 2.0 km from a clinic on average.
Photo: Ryan Tir from Vaughan, ON, Canada · CC BY 2.0