Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Forest Heights is ahead of 89% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 53% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole manages 51%. For Forest Heights itself the measure is access: 3.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Forest Heights grades A for health, #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Forest Heights
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Forest Heights, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Forest Heights has 11 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Forest Heights grades A 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: #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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 6th 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 Forest Heights’ 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.
From Forest Heights, a hospital is 3.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Forest Heights’ own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Forest Heights goes.
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
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Forest Heights’ region shows close to the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Forest Heights’ region fits it, 82.8 years at 2.6 against the line’s 82.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 82.5 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8% diabetes
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 33% of adults against 30% for Ontario.
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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 55% to 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 52% against 51%, and 23% 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.
Forest Heights is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,110 to 14,615 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 19 | Harbour Landing SK B | 14,402 | 2.8 km | 49% |
| 20 | Pointe-de-Sainte-Foy QC A+ | 14,541 | 3.1 km | 62% |
| 21 | Forest Heights ON A | 14,369 | 3.6 km | 53% |
| 22 | Rosemère QC A+ | 14,198 | 3.7 km | 60% |
| 23 | Maricourt QC A | 14,407 | 4.3 km | 55% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Forest Heights
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Heights | 3.6 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Highland West 1.8 km | 3.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Forest Hill 1.9 km | 1.7 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Victoria Hills 2.5 km | 1.7 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Laurentian West 2.5 km | 3.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Meinzinger Park-Lakeside 2.8 km | 0.8 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Laurentian Hills 3.0 km | 2.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Every place around Forest Heights shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Forest Heights shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Forest Heights
What is the life expectancy in Forest Heights?
Women in Forest Heights’ region live to 84.9 on average and men to 80.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Forest Heights’ 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 Forest Heights’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Forest Heights?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Forest Heights from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Forest Heights is 2.3 km from a clinic and 0.7 km from a pharmacy.
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).