Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Westmount, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.4 years on average: women 83.4, men 79.3, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Westmount live 2.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Westmount grades B+ for health, #5 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,358 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Westmount
Pharmacies on every corner
With 15 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Westmount is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Westmount 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: #5 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,358 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 to hospital from Westmount: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Westmount’s own, not the region’s.
From Westmount 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Westmount’s lies below the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Westmount’s region, at 2.6, should live about 82.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.7. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Nova Scotia: 35%, the province 39%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy across the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia
Regional life expectancy in Nova Scotia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia: the lowest figure is 78.8, 2.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Westmount’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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Nova Scotia (48% against 48%), while 24% call most days stressful.
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: Westmount comes 22nd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 22,497 to 23,948 people, median 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | Ouest (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 23,373 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Flemingdon Park ON A | 22,553 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 20 | Sainte-Lucie QC A | 22,574 | 1.8 km | 54% |
| 21 | Cobourg ON C+ | 22,529 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 22 | Westmount NS B+ | 23,207 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 23 | Birchcliffe-Cliffside ON A | 23,115 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 24 | Etobicoke City Centre ON A | 23,856 | 3.0 km | 50% |
| 40 | Essex ON B− | 23,872 | 22 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Westmount
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmount | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| South End 2.4 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 2.6 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 2.7 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 2.8 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Mount Royale 3.0 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 3.3 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Westmount’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Westmount itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Westmount
How is Westmount’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Westmount’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Westmount?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Westmount from a hospital?
Residents of Westmount have a pharmacy 0.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Westmount?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.4 for women, 79.3 for men around Westmount (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).