Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0The nearest hospital is 34 km from the average home in Stratford
Across the region, 57% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Quebec (57%). A pharmacy is nearer: 13 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Health gives Stratford a grade of A−.
What stands out about health in Stratford
More years than its deprivation would give
Stratford’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.0 predicts: 82.9 years against 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Stratford, a child can expect 1.4 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 5.4 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 56% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
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.
Stratford 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.
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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.9 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Stratford’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
At 3.0 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 81.0 years, and the region Stratford belongs to reaches 82.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 80.4. A household income of about $67,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (9.1%)
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
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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.
How the 18 health regions in Quebec compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Quebec, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 18 health regions in Quebec, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 65.2 and a high of 84.1.
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; Stratford’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Quebec: 56% and 56%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 63% very good or excellent against 64% for Quebec; stress is a daily matter for 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Everyday care in Stratford: the nearest pharmacy 13 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Stratford, weighted by who lives there.
Stratford is further out than the provincial norm of 5.3 km in Quebec, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
Health in the places around Stratford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford | 34 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Disraeli 11 km | 24 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Disraeli 13 km | 23 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Weedon 16 km | 38 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
| Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine 18 km | 16 km | 59% | 82.8 | B+ |
| Lambton 19 km | 31 km | 57% | 82.9 | A− |
Across a regional line, Disraeli has its own figures: life expectancy 82.8, against 82.9 here. Residents of Saint-Joseph-de-Coleraine live nearer a hospital, at 16 km against 34 km in Stratford.
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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Stratford shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Stratford
How far is Stratford from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Stratford is 4.0 km from a clinic and 13 km from a pharmacy.
How is Stratford’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Stratford: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Stratford?
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 14%.
What is the life expectancy in Stratford?
There is no figure for Stratford alone; its health region’s is 84.8 for women and 81.0 for men in 2022/2024.
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).