Photo: Renard Franco · CC0Around Embrun, 49% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.0, women 83.0 and men 78.9 (2022/2024). What sets Embrun apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 21 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Embrun is C, #798 of 866 in Ontario and #2,290 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Embrun
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Embrun the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Embrun is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Embrun 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: #798 of 866 in Ontario and #2,290 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 Embrun, a hospital is 21 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Embrun’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, Embrun 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (11%)
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
At 39%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% against 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Embrun’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Embrun’s region is a typical case: 81.0 years at a score of 3.2, where the trend says 80.3. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 81.0.
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
This region is 18th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale 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 Embrun’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
The region’s 53% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 27% reporting stressful days.
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: Embrun comes 39th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 22,755 to 24,629 people, median 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cartierville QC A | 24,617 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 2 | Ouest (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 23,373 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Renfrew-Collingwood BC A+ | 23,392 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 37 | New Hamburg ON A− | 22,890 | 15 km | 53% |
| 38 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
| 39 | Embrun ON C | 23,655 | 21 km | 49% |
| 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 Embrun
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Embrun | 21 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Vars 11 km | 23 km | 56% | 83.7 | A− |
| Metcalfe 14 km | 18 km | 56% | 83.7 | A− |
| Edwards - Carlsbad Springs 16 km | 14 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Casselman 17 km | 32 km | 49% | 81.0 | C− |
| Limoges 17 km | 27 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| North Stormont 17 km | 22 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
Vars falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 83.7 against 81.0 here. Residents of Casselman live further from a hospital, at 32 km against 21 km in Embrun.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Embrun’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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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 Embrun
How far is Embrun from a hospital?
For everyday care, Embrun’s residents are 1.5 km from a pharmacy and 25 km from a clinic on average.
How is Embrun’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 Embrun’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Embrun?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Embrun?
For the health region that includes Embrun, women can expect 83.0 years and men 78.9 (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).