Photo: Thorfinn Stainforth · CC BY-SA 3.0Around South End, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.4 years, 83.4 for a girl and 79.3 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of South End live 2.8 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives South End a grade of B+, #8 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,386 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in South End
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of South End can reach 8.4 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.2 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.
South End 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: #8 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,386 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.
From South End, a hospital is 2.8 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of South End, weighted by who lives there.
From South End that is nearer than the 9.2 km of the typical town in Nova Scotia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The clinic list is thin in Nova Scotia: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); South End’s region is below the line.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.6 would suggest 82.2 years, but South End’s region stops at 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.7. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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 (21%) and diabetes (7.5%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 35%, trails Nova Scotia (39%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Longest and shortest lives among the 4 regions in Nova Scotia
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Nova Scotia, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for South End itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
More people rate their health highly here than in Nova Scotia: 51% to 47%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 48%, the province 48% (Nova Scotia).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: South End comes 24th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (21,533 to 22,511 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 22 | Sandalwood East (mountainash) ON A− | 21,801 | 2.4 km | 49% |
| 23 | Lakeview ON A− | 21,789 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 24 | South End NS B+ | 22,012 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 25 | Rockcliffe-Smythe ON A | 22,242 | 2.8 km | 50% |
| 26 | Port Colborne ON C+ | 21,921 | 3.0 km | 49% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around South End
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South End | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 2.4 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 2.8 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 3.8 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 4.6 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 4.9 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Mount Royale 5.3 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Every place around South End shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are South End’s own.
Questions about health in South End
How is South End’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and South End’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is South End?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is South End from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.2 km from the average resident of South End, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in South End?
Statistics Canada publishes it for South End’s health region only: 83.4 years for women and 79.3 for men (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).