Photo: Laslovarga · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Waterdown, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.5, men 79.0, in 2022/2024. For Waterdown itself the measure is access, and it lags: 7.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Waterdown a grade of B, #656 of 866 in Ontario and #1,922 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Waterdown
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Waterdown’s neighbourhoods average 1.5 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Waterdown 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: #656 of 866 in Ontario and #1,922 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
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 Waterdown’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Waterdown’s dot is marked, close to 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 Waterdown’s region matches it closely with 81.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 5 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 80.9 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.
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Ontario: 28%, the province 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.
From Waterdown, a hospital is 7.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Waterdown, weighted by who lives there.
Waterdown is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
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
Stress touches 27% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 52%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Waterdown is 32nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,821 to 24,920 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 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% |
| 30 | Port Perry ON B | 23,928 | 5.8 km | 50% |
| 31 | Rivière-Blanche QC B | 23,089 | 6.9 km | 55% |
| 32 | Waterdown ON B | 23,858 | 7.4 km | 53% |
| 33 | Old Barrhaven East ON A | 23,585 | 7.9 km | 56% |
| 34 | Springwater ON B+ | 24,144 | 11 km | 54% |
| 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 Waterdown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waterdown | 7.4 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| York Road 7.1 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Burlington 7.9 km | 4.8 km | 54% | 84.9 | A |
| North End East 8.0 km | 0.4 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Colborne 8.0 km | 6.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Strathcona 8.1 km | 1.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Central 8.2 km | 0.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Burlington’s life expectancy is 84.9, this region’s 81.2. North End East is the closest to care, 0.4 km to Waterdown’s 7.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Waterdown alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Waterdown
How is Waterdown’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Waterdown has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Waterdown from a hospital?
For everyday care, Waterdown’s residents are 1.2 km from a pharmacy and 5.0 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Waterdown?
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 Waterdown?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men around Waterdown (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).