Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY-SA 4.051% of adults around Windsor rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.4 years (83.4 for women, 79.3 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Windsor apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 7.7 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Windsor grades B for health, #20 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,682 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Windsor 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: #20 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,682 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Windsor’s region is below the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Windsor belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.6 predicts: 81.4 years, where the trend gives 82.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 5 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.7 years. Households here earn around $81,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.5% diabetes
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
At 35%, self-reported obesity is below Nova Scotia’s 39%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
From Windsor, a hospital is 7.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Windsor’s own, not the region’s.
Against 9.2 km for the typical town in Nova Scotia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Windsor sits near the middle. The centre of population is 0.7 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 7.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Nova Scotia, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 4 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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Windsor’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Nova Scotia: 51% very good or excellent, against 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Windsor comes 33rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,802 to 20,872 people, median 2.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 3 | Longue-Pointe QC A | 20,337 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 31 | Tuscany AB A | 19,986 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 32 | Roseland ON B | 20,587 | 6.0 km | 52% |
| 33 | Windsor NS B | 20,318 | 7.7 km | 51% |
| 34 | Pelham ON C+ | 19,980 | 8.0 km | 49% |
| 35 | Kanata Lakes ON A | 19,861 | 8.7 km | 56% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Windsor
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 | 7.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B |
| Kings County, Subdivision D 18 km | 7.1 km | 44% | 80.0 | C− |
Across a regional line, Kings County, Subdivision D has its own figures: life expectancy 80.0, against 81.4 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Windsor alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Windsor
How is Windsor’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’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Windsor from a hospital?
For everyday care, Windsor’s residents are 6.5 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Windsor?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Windsor?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Windsor’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).