Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.052% of adults around Argyle rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.9 years, 84.2 for a girl and 79.6 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 5.2 km from the average resident of Argyle, further than the usual 3.7 km. Argyle grades B+ for health, #478 of 866 in Ontario and #1,221 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Argyle
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Argyle’s neighbourhoods average 4.1 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Argyle can reach 6.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.0 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Argyle 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: #478 of 866 in Ontario and #1,221 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.
From Argyle, a hospital is 5.2 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Argyle, weighted by who lives there.
Argyle 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.
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
The region comes 9th 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; Argyle’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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Argyle’s region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Argyle belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 81.9 years, the trend 81.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 81.3 years. Households here earn around $80,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 33%, the province 30%. At 24%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 53%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Argyle is 33rd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (27,031 to 29,234 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Montagne QC A | 28,569 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 3 | Marie-Victorin QC A | 28,904 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 31 | Bedford NS B+ | 28,848 | 4.9 km | 51% |
| 32 | Wasaga Beach ON B+ | 28,736 | 5.0 km | 54% |
| 33 | Argyle ON B+ | 28,109 | 5.2 km | 52% |
| 34 | Laurendeau QC A | 27,321 | 5.9 km | 55% |
| 35 | Beamsville ON C+ | 28,356 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 40 | Amherstburg ON B− | 27,509 | 19 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Argyle
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Argyle | 5.2 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Hamilton Road 2.9 km | 3.2 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| East London 3.7 km | 1.5 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Jackson 4.2 km | 4.4 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Huron Heights 4.6 km | 4.0 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Glen Cairn 5.0 km | 2.0 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Carling 5.6 km | 2.2 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Argyle and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of East London live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 5.2 km in Argyle.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Argyle shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Argyle
How is Argyle’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 Argyle’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Argyle?
There is no figure for Argyle alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 79.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Argyle from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Argyle live: 3.0 km to a clinic, 1.0 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Argyle?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).