Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.053% of adults around Lynden rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.5 for a girl and 79.0 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Lynden apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 14 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Lynden a grade of B−, #684 of 866 in Ontario and #2,017 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lynden
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Lynden live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lynden 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: #684 of 866 in Ontario and #2,017 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 14 km from the average home in Lynden
Straight-line distances from each part of Lynden, weighted by who lives there.
From Lynden that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Lynden’s lies near the line.
At 3.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Lynden belongs to reaches 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%). More adults drink heavily, 21% to the province’s 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.
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
The region comes 15th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lynden’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (52% against 51%), while 27% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Lynden is 39th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (10,204 to 10,680 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Sacrement QC A+ | 10,650 | 0.4 km | 62% |
| 2 | Weston-Pelham Park ON A | 10,680 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | South Central ON B+ | 10,392 | 0.6 km | 52% |
| 37 | Ponoka County AB C | 10,670 | 13 km | 52% |
| 38 | Corman Park No. 344 SK B | 10,463 | 14 km | 49% |
| 39 | Lynden ON B− | 10,442 | 14 km | 53% |
| 40 | Greely ON A− | 10,359 | 17 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lynden
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynden | 14 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Spring Valley 9.8 km | 8.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Turnball 11 km | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Golf Course 11 km | 4.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Shaver 11 km | 9.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Leeming 11 km | 8.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Sulphur Springs 12 km | 5.1 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
One health region covers Lynden and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Turnball live nearer a hospital, at 4.9 km against 14 km in Lynden.
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 Lynden’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. 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.
Questions about health in Lynden
How is Lynden’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 Lynden’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Lynden from a hospital?
A clinic is 10 km from the average resident of Lynden and a pharmacy 9.5 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Lynden?
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.
What is the life expectancy in Lynden?
Women in Lynden’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).