Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Windsor Park’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.4, with women at 83.4 and men at 79.3. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Windsor Park is well placed: 1.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Windsor Park grades B+ for health, #3 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,301 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Windsor Park
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Windsor Park can reach 18 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 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.
Windsor Park 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: #3 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,301 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 Windsor Park, a hospital is 1.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Windsor Park, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Windsor Park is on the near side. 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.
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Windsor Park’s, lies beneath the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Windsor Park’s region’s: 81.4 years where the line expects 82.2 at 2.6. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 81.7 years. Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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
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.
How the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia compare on life expectancy
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
No region of the 4 in Nova Scotia lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.8, a gap of 2.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Windsor Park’s residents live; they carry no weight in 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
For 24% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 48% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Nova Scotia’s 48%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Windsor Park is 17th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,799 to 13,293 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yonge-Bay Corridor ON A | 12,888 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown AB B+ | 12,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 3 | Corso Italia-Davenport ON A | 13,215 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 15 | Yonge-St.Clair ON A | 13,177 | 1.9 km | 50% |
| 16 | Madoc ON A− | 13,160 | 1.9 km | 49% |
| 17 | Windsor Park NS B+ | 13,044 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 18 | Saint-Jean-Vianney QC A | 13,181 | 2.0 km | 55% |
| 19 | Springdale ON A− | 13,221 | 2.3 km | 49% |
| 40 | Sainte-Julienne QC B | 12,990 | 21 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Windsor Park
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windsor Park | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 1.7 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Fairview 1.9 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Westmount 2.7 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Austinville 3.2 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Mount Royale 3.4 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 3.4 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Every place around Windsor Park shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Mount Royale live further from a hospital, at 5.0 km against 1.9 km in Windsor Park.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Windsor Park’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Windsor Park
How is Windsor Park’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Windsor Park’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Windsor Park from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.5 km from the average resident of Windsor Park, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Windsor Park?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Windsor Park?
Women in Windsor Park’s region live to 83.4 on average and men to 79.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).