Photo: Jason Zhang · CC0Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Underwood, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). For Underwood itself the measure is access: 3.4 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Underwood grades A for health, #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Underwood
Pharmacies close at hand
With 13 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Underwood is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Underwood 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: #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 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.
Getting to hospital from Underwood: 3.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Underwood, weighted by who lives there.
Underwood is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with 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
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Underwood’s region is above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Underwood’s region, at 1.9, should live about 85.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 86.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Underwood’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
Stress touches 25% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 53%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Underwood is 22nd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,862 to 6,092 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowertown West ON A+ | 5,947 | 0.4 km | 56% |
| 2 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 20 | Homeside ON B | 6,011 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 21 | Crystal Bay - Lakeview Park ON A | 6,059 | 3.3 km | 56% |
| 22 | Underwood ON A | 5,972 | 3.4 km | 51% |
| 23 | Port Mann BC A | 5,988 | 3.5 km | 50% |
| 24 | Nutana Urban Centre SK B+ | 5,926 | 3.9 km | 49% |
| 40 | Stettler County No. 6 AB C | 5,966 | 18 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Underwood
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Underwood | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Milliken 0.6 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hagerman's Corners 1.7 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Steeles 2.4 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Milliken 2.5 km | 3.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Agincourt North 3.6 km | 2.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| East L'Amoreaux 3.7 km | 0.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Steeles’s life expectancy is 84.7, this region’s 86.3.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Underwood’s own.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Underwood
What is the life expectancy in Underwood?
There is no figure for Underwood alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Underwood’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Underwood: 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 Underwood?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Underwood from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.5 km from the average resident of Underwood and a pharmacy 0.6 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).