Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Cornell scores better for health than 91% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Cornell apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Cornell a grade of A, #103 of 866 in Ontario and #508 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cornell
Life expectancy above the norm
Cornell’s region sits 4.8 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 23.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Cornell is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Cornell has 4.5 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.6 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.
Cornell 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: #103 of 866 in Ontario and #508 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 34 regions in Ontario: the lowest figure is 73.7, 12.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Cornell’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Cornell: 1.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Cornell’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Cornell is on the near side.
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.3 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Cornell’s lies above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Cornell’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 83.5 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.8% 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 lower than in the province, at 23% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs under the province, 9.8% to 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 50% and 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 is no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 25% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Cornell is 7th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 21,533 to 22,511 people, median 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 5 | Mont-Bleu QC B+ | 21,636 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 6 | Snowdon QC A | 22,511 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 7 | Cornell ON A | 22,014 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 8 | Electoral Area A, Metro Vancouver BC A+ | 22,031 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 9 | Bedford Park-Nortown ON A | 22,376 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cornell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell | 1.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Upper Cornell 1.2 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Greensborough 2.5 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Markham Village 2.6 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 2.9 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Box Grove 4.0 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Wismer Commons 4.1 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Cornell’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Cornell alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Cornell
What is the life expectancy in Cornell?
There is no figure for Cornell alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Cornell’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Cornell has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Cornell from a hospital?
Residents of Cornell have a clinic 0.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.6 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Cornell?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
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).