Photo: Mhsheikholeslami · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Markham Village for health: it beats 91% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). For Markham Village itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Markham Village a grade of A, #128 of 866 in Ontario and #578 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Markham Village
Longer lives in the region
Born around Markham Village, a child can expect 4.8 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 23.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Markham Village: 1.4 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Markham Village has 9.7 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.6 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.
Markham Village 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: #128 of 866 in Ontario and #578 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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 Markham Village’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Markham Village, a hospital is 1.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Markham Village’s own, not the region’s.
Markham Village 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Markham Village’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
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 Markham Village’s region does better with 86.3. 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.
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
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.
Markham Village is 7th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 10,129 to 10,498 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Central ON B+ | 10,392 | 0.6 km | 52% |
| 2 | City Centre ON B+ | 10,269 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Professors Lake ON A− | 10,335 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 5 | West Hillhurst AB A+ | 10,319 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 6 | Taber AB B− | 10,175 | 1.3 km | 52% |
| 7 | Markham Village ON A | 10,319 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 8 | Centreville Chicopee ON A | 10,291 | 1.4 km | 53% |
| 9 | Masonville ON A− | 10,359 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 40 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands ON C+ | 10,185 | 26 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Markham Village
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Markham Village | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 0.9 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Greensborough 1.9 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Wismer Commons 2.4 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cornell 2.6 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Quantztown 2.7 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Upper Cornell 2.8 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Markham Village and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Markham Village’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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 Markham Village
What is the life expectancy in Markham Village?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Markham Village’s health region only: 87.9 years for women and 84.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Markham Village from a hospital?
For everyday care, Markham Village’s residents are 0.6 km from a pharmacy and 1.9 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Markham Village?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How is Markham Village’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Markham Village’s own distance to care, against 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).