Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.018% of adults smoke in the health region around Callander, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 47% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. For Callander itself the measure is access, and it lags: 15 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Callander a grade of C−, #844 of 866 in Ontario and #2,451 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Callander
A long way to hospital
Residents of Callander live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (15 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Callander runs 1.5 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.3 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 46% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.2 years of life; Callander’s region reaches 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Callander grades C− 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: #844 of 866 in Ontario and #2,451 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 Callander, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Callander’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Callander is on the far side.
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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 1.8 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Callander’s region comes out above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.7, the expected figure is 78.2 years, and Callander’s region does better with 80.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 78.2.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 24th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Callander’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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 25% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 49% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.7%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 36%, the province 30%. At 24%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 17%.
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.
Callander is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,947 to 4,093 people, median 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCauley AB B+ | 4,060 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 28 | Saint-Adolphe-d'Howard QC A | 3,974 | 12 km | 60% |
| 29 | Okanagan Falls BC B | 4,002 | 14 km | 52% |
| 30 | Callander ON C− | 4,021 | 15 km | 47% |
| 31 | Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré QC A | 4,009 | 16 km | 60% |
| 32 | Watford ON C | 3,955 | 16 km | 49% |
| 40 | Mistissini QC | 4,067 | 66 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Callander
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Callander’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Powassan is the furthest from care, 30 km to Callander’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Callander itself is the trip to care.
- 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 Callander
How far is Callander from a hospital?
Residents of Callander have a clinic 8.4 km away on average and a pharmacy 3.7 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Callander?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Callander?
For the health region that includes Callander, women can expect 82.6 years and men 77.6 (2022/2024).
How is Callander’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Callander’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).