Health in Vaughan · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run long around Vaughan: 86.3 years, 4.8 more than the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. What sets Vaughan apart within its region is distance, and at 3.9 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). At 10%, the share of adults who smoke is close to the 11% for Ontario.
The average resident of Vaughan can reach 12 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. 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.
Health Grade
No Health grade for Vaughan yet
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
51%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
16%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
10%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
86.3
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.9 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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
The nearest hospital is 3.9 km from the average home in Vaughan
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Vaughan’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
12 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
Vaughan is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 0.2 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 3.9 km.
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Vaughan’s dot is marked, above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Vaughan’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 83.5 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.
Conditions and habits
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.8% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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
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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years ahead of the last at 73.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.8
Economic dependency2.5
Ethno-cultural composition4.7
Situational vulnerability1.8
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Vaughan’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.
Health survey
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
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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 53% very good or excellent to 51%; 25% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Vaughan
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Vaughan and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Vaughan itself is the trip to care.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Vaughan
What is the life expectancy in Vaughan?
For the health region that includes Vaughan, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
Does Vaughan have a Health grade?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Vaughan has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Vaughan?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Vaughan from a hospital?
Residents of Vaughan have a clinic 2.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.9 km away, in straight lines.
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