Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Greensborough’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 4.8 years: life expectancy 86.3
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. What sets Greensborough apart within its region is distance, and at 3.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Greensborough is A, #293 of 866 in Ontario and #862 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Greensborough
Fewer households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Greensborough’s neighbourhoods average 1.3 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Greensborough 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: #293 of 866 in Ontario and #862 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
This is the longest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years ahead of the last at 73.7.
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 Greensborough’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.3 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Greensborough’s dot is marked, above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 1.9, the expected figure is 85.0 years, and Greensborough’s region does better with 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (7.8%)
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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is rarer (9.8% against 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.
The nearest hospital is 3.8 km from the average home in Greensborough
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Greensborough’s 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 Greensborough 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.
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.
Greensborough is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 18,676 to 19,861 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granville Entertainment District BC A+ | 19,125 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Central London ON A− | 19,363 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 23 | Beaconsfield QC A | 19,430 | 3.3 km | 54% |
| 24 | Westmount ON B+ | 19,591 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 25 | Greensborough ON A | 19,270 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 26 | Heart Lake South ON A− | 19,573 | 4.0 km | 49% |
| 27 | Bracebridge ON B+ | 18,676 | 4.3 km | 54% |
| 40 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC A− | 19,447 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Greensborough
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greensborough | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 1.2 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Wismer Commons 1.8 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Upper Cornell 1.8 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Markham Village 1.9 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cornell 2.5 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Quantztown 3.4 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Greensborough from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Greensborough itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
Questions about health in Greensborough
What is the life expectancy in Greensborough?
For the health region that includes Greensborough, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
How is Greensborough’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Greensborough’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Greensborough?
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 Greensborough from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.9 km from the average resident of Greensborough and a pharmacy 1.3 km, as the crow flies.
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).