Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Langstaff scores better for health than 90% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.6 km from the average resident of Langstaff, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Langstaff a grade of A, #154 of 866 in Ontario and #630 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Langstaff
Life expectancy above the norm
Langstaff’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 ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 13 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Langstaff is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Langstaff 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: #154 of 866 in Ontario and #630 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
No region of the 34 in Ontario lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 73.7, a gap of 12.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Langstaff’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Langstaff, a hospital is 1.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Langstaff’s own, not the region’s.
Langstaff is closer in 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.
1.3 more years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Langstaff’s region comes out above the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Langstaff’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 83.5.
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
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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (53% to 51%), the region has 25% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Langstaff is 9th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,009 to 8,283 people, median 4.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 8,224 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Wolseley MB B+ | 8,127 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Shaughnessy BC A+ | 8,034 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 7 | St. Marys ON B | 8,203 | 1.4 km | 45% |
| 8 | Al Ritchie SK B+ | 8,087 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 9 | Langstaff ON A | 8,147 | 1.6 km | 51% |
| 10 | Elmvale - Canterbury ON A+ | 8,149 | 1.7 km | 56% |
| 11 | Lawson Heights SK B+ | 8,158 | 1.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Langstaff
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Langstaff | 1.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Steeles Corners 1.9 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Thornlea 2.3 km | 1.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Thornhill 2.4 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Beverley Glen 3.6 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Newtonbrook East 3.8 km | 0.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Thornhill Woods 3.9 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Newtonbrook East’s life expectancy is 84.7, this region’s 86.3.
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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Langstaff alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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 Langstaff
What is the life expectancy in Langstaff?
There is no figure for Langstaff alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Langstaff from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Langstaff live: 3.1 km to a clinic, 0.6 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Langstaff?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How is Langstaff’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Langstaff: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).