Photo: Boxcarphilly · CC BY 3.0More smokers around Grey Highlands: 17% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. What sets Grey Highlands apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Grey Highlands is C+, #768 of 866 in Ontario and #2,224 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Grey Highlands
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Grey Highlands the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Grey Highlands 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: #768 of 866 in Ontario and #2,224 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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Grey Highlands
Straight-line distances from each part of Grey Highlands, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Grey Highlands travel further 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Grey Highlands’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Grey Highlands’ region fits it, 81.3 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.7. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 81.1 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (9%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 23% 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Ontario, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 13th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Grey Highlands’ 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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent, against 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 49% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Grey Highlands is 34th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,910 to 12,413 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 3 | Nelson BC A | 12,126 | 1.3 km | 55% |
| 32 | Moncton NB C+ | 12,238 | 12 km | 43% |
| 33 | St. Andrews MB C− | 12,021 | 12 km | 50% |
| 34 | Grey Highlands ON C+ | 12,148 | 13 km | 48% |
| 35 | Norwich ON C+ | 12,321 | 13 km | 49% |
| 36 | St. Clements MB C− | 12,029 | 13 km | 50% |
| 40 | Morrisburg ON C | 11,943 | 22 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Grey Highlands
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey Highlands | 13 km | 48% | 81.3 | C+ |
| Dundalk 18 km | 19 km | 48% | 81.3 | C |
Only the hospital column is local here: Grey Highlands and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Grey Highlands alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Grey Highlands
How far is Grey Highlands from a hospital?
For everyday care, Grey Highlands’ residents are 8.3 km from a pharmacy and 22 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Grey Highlands?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Grey Highlands’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Grey Highlands’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Grey Highlands?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Grey Highlands’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.9 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).