Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Expect 86.3 years of life in the region around Upper Cornell, 4.8 above the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Upper Cornell is well placed: 1.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Upper Cornell is A, #180 of 866 in Ontario and #671 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Upper Cornell
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Upper Cornell can reach 4.7 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 2.0 km off. 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.
Upper Cornell 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: #180 of 866 in Ontario and #671 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.8 km from the average home in Upper Cornell
Straight-line distances from each part of Upper Cornell, weighted by who lives there.
Upper Cornell 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
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Upper Cornell’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Upper Cornell’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.
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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Upper Cornell itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 53% very good or excellent to 51%; 25% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Upper Cornell comes 9th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,190 to 8,419 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alta Vista ON A+ | 8,387 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 2 | G-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 8,224 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Valley Gardens MB B+ | 8,329 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 7 | Goderich ON B | 8,412 | 1.5 km | 45% |
| 8 | Old Ottawa East ON A+ | 8,308 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 9 | Upper Cornell ON A | 8,304 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 10 | Somerset AB A+ | 8,416 | 1.8 km | 56% |
| 11 | Strathcona AB B+ | 8,283 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Argyle NS D− | 8,216 | 23 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Upper Cornell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Cornell | 1.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Cornell 1.2 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Greensborough 1.8 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 2.7 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Markham Village 2.8 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Wismer Commons 3.6 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Box Grove 5.0 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Upper Cornell’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Upper Cornell alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Upper Cornell
What is the life expectancy in Upper Cornell?
There is no figure for Upper Cornell alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Upper Cornell’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Upper Cornell’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Upper Cornell?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Upper Cornell from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.0 km from the average resident of Upper Cornell and a pharmacy 2.0 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).