Photo: Carlosgabriel11 · CC BY-SA 3.0Unionville’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 4.8 years: life expectancy 86.3
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 sits 4.8 km from the average resident of Unionville, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Unionville a grade of A, #316 of 866 in Ontario and #904 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Unionville
Fewer households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Unionville at 1.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Unionville can reach 11 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Unionville 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: #316 of 866 in Ontario and #904 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 Unionville: 4.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Unionville’s own, not the region’s.
From Unionville that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Unionville’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
1.3 more years of life than regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Unionville’s region is above the line.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Unionville’s region, at 1.9, outlives the trend’s 85.0 years with 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.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 50% to 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 25% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 53% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Unionville comes 28th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,146 to 18,105 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 26 | McKenzie Towne AB A+ | 17,757 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 27 | Saint-Michel QC A+ | 17,303 | 4.4 km | 62% |
| 28 | Unionville ON A | 17,632 | 4.8 km | 51% |
| 29 | Iberville QC A | 17,988 | 4.9 km | 55% |
| 30 | Credit Valley ON A− | 18,078 | 4.9 km | 49% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Unionville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unionville | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cachet 2.2 km | 6.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Quantztown 2.3 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Brown's Corners 2.4 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Berczy Village 2.5 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Buttonville 3.0 km | 6.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Hagerman's Corners 3.4 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Around Unionville the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Unionville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Unionville
What is the life expectancy in Unionville?
There is no figure for Unionville alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Unionville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Unionville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Unionville?
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 Unionville from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.2 km from the average resident of Unionville and a pharmacy 0.8 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).