Photo: Sikander Iqbal · CC BY-SA 4.0Lives run long around German Mills: 86.3 years, 4.8 more than the typical Canadian town’s region
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 51% against 51%. What sets German Mills apart within its region is distance, and at 2.7 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives German Mills a grade of A, #235 of 866 in Ontario and #763 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in German Mills
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, German Mills’ neighbourhoods average 1.1 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in German Mills has 9.4 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.0 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.
German Mills 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: #235 of 866 in Ontario and #763 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.7 km from the average home in German Mills
Straight-line distances from each part of German Mills, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care German Mills is ordinary: 3.3 km is the typical figure in Ontario, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for German Mills 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 region lives 1.3 years longer than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for German Mills’ region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 1.9 on the index, the line expects 85.0 years; German Mills’ region reaches 86.3. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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
Self-reported obesity, 23%, trails Ontario (30%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 9.8% to the province’s 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
Asked about their mental health, 53% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 25% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: German Mills comes 7th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,625 to 12,218 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weyburn SK C− | 11,871 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Nelson BC A | 12,126 | 1.3 km | 55% |
| 3 | South Cameron ON B+ | 11,804 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 5 | Saint-Rodrigue QC A+ | 12,018 | 2.4 km | 62% |
| 6 | René-Goupil QC A | 11,663 | 2.4 km | 54% |
| 7 | German Mills ON A | 11,923 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 8 | Mississauga Valleys ON A− | 11,799 | 2.9 km | 49% |
| 9 | Milliken ON A | 12,138 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Mont-Tremblant QC A− | 11,879 | 25 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around German Mills
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| German Mills | 2.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Thornlea 2.0 km | 1.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hillcrest Village 2.2 km | 3.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Bayview Woods-Steeles 3.2 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Steeles 3.7 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Steeles Corners 4.1 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Langstaff 4.2 km | 1.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Hillcrest Village’s life expectancy is 84.7, this region’s 86.3.
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.
- 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. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to German Mills alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in German Mills
What is the life expectancy in German Mills?
For the health region that includes German Mills, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
How is German Mills’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for German Mills: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is German Mills?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is German Mills from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in German Mills is 2.8 km from a clinic and 1.0 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).