Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Leeming’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.5 and men 79.0 (2022/2024). What sets Leeming apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.2 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Leeming grades B− for health, #659 of 866 in Ontario and #1,944 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Leeming
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Leeming’s neighbourhoods average 1.0 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Leeming 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: #659 of 866 in Ontario and #1,944 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Leeming’s 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Leeming’s lies near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.0, the expected figure is 81.0 years, and Leeming’s region matches it closely with 81.2. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (5 of 10), with a median of 80.9.
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.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.5% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 28%, sits within a few points of Ontario (30%). Heavy drinking is commoner too (21% 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.
Getting to hospital from Leeming: 8.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Leeming, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Leeming 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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Ontario (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
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 52% against 51%, and 27% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Leeming is 25th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,816 to 2,884 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 23 | O'Leary PE B | 2,878 | 6.3 km | 51% |
| 24 | Saint-Elzéar QC A− | 2,842 | 6.9 km | 59% |
| 25 | Leeming ON B− | 2,849 | 8.2 km | 53% |
| 26 | Shaver ON B− | 2,882 | 9.2 km | 53% |
| 27 | Navan - Sarsfield ON A− | 2,853 | 17 km | 56% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Leeming
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leeming | 8.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Shaver 1.0 km | 9.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Spring Valley 1.3 km | 8.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Garner 1.6 km | 6.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Marritt 2.8 km | 6.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Sulphur Springs 3.3 km | 5.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Oakes 3.3 km | 5.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Leeming and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Leeming shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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 Leeming
How is Leeming’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Leeming’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Leeming from a hospital?
Residents of Leeming have a clinic 2.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Leeming?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Leeming?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Leeming’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.0 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).