Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Vanier scores better for health than 90% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 53% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Vanier is well placed: 2.4 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Vanier is A, #129 of 866 in Ontario and #582 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Vanier
Longer lives in the region
Born around Vanier, 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 ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Vanier’s neighbourhoods average 4.2 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 11 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Vanier is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Vanier 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: #129 of 866 in Ontario and #582 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
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 6th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Vanier itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 2.4 km from the average home in Vanier
Straight-line distances from each part of Vanier, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Vanier travel about as far as 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Vanier’s lies near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Vanier’s region fits it, 82.8 years at 2.6 against the line’s 82.5. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 82.5 years in the middle.
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.
High blood pressure for 17% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8%
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
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.
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 55% very good or excellent, against 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 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.
Vanier is 20th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (15,338 to 16,036 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Little Portugal ON A | 15,669 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 18 | Lachute QC A+ | 15,469 | 2.1 km | 60% |
| 19 | Lansing-Westgate ON A | 15,980 | 2.4 km | 50% |
| 20 | Vanier ON A | 15,686 | 2.4 km | 53% |
| 21 | Ledbury-Heron Gate-Ridgemont ON A+ | 15,610 | 2.5 km | 56% |
| 22 | Jésuites QC A+ | 15,792 | 2.9 km | 62% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Vanier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vanier | 2.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Trillium Industrial Park 1.3 km | 1.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Centreville Chicopee 1.8 km | 1.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Stanley Park 1.9 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Country Hills 2.3 km | 0.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Alpine 2.4 km | 1.6 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Idlewood 2.8 km | 2.7 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Around Vanier the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Vanier alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Vanier
How is Vanier’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Vanier has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Vanier?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.9 for women, 80.7 for men around Vanier (2022/2024).
How healthy is Vanier?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Vanier from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Vanier live: 1.0 km to a clinic, 0.6 km to 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).