Photo: P199 · Public domain16% of adults smoke in the health region around Deep River, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. For Deep River itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Deep River is C+, #735 of 866 in Ontario and #2,158 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Deep River
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (27%) and diabetes (10%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.4 on the deprivation index typically live 79.2 years; Deep River’s region, at 81.0, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Deep River 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: #735 of 866 in Ontario and #2,158 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.
1.8 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Deep River’s, lies over the trend.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.4 on the index, the line expects 79.2 years; Deep River’s region reaches 81.0. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 79.1 years.
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 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 26% to 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.8 km from the average home in Deep River
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Deep River’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Deep River are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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 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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 18th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Deep River’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 trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Ontario, 55% very good or excellent to 51%; 21% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Deep River is 11th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,276 to 4,422 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Roslyn MB B+ | 4,411 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 9 | South Calgary AB A+ | 4,412 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 10 | Patricia Heights AB B+ | 4,355 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 11 | Deep River ON C+ | 4,353 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 12 | Pollard Meadows AB B+ | 4,361 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 13 | Bellerive QC A | 4,393 | 2.1 km | 55% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Deep River
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deep River | 1.8 km | 50% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Chalk River 7.7 km | 7.6 km | 50% | 81.0 | C+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Deep River’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Chalk River live further from a hospital, at 7.6 km against 1.8 km in Deep River.
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.
- 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 Deep River’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Deep River
How is Deep River’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Deep River: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Deep River?
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 Deep River?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.7 for men around Deep River (2022/2024).
How far is Deep River from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Deep River is 1.0 km from a clinic and 0.8 km from a pharmacy.
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).