Photo: Silver Dovelet · CC BY-SA 4.0Vinegar Hill’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 4.8 years: life expectancy 86.3
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 51% against 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Vinegar Hill is well placed: 2.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Vinegar Hill is A, #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Vinegar Hill
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Vinegar Hill has 8.8 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 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.
Vinegar Hill 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: #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 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.
From Vinegar Hill, a hospital is 2.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Vinegar Hill’s own, not the region’s.
Vinegar Hill 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.
The region lives 1.3 years longer than its deprivation predicts
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Vinegar Hill’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 1.9 on the index, the line expects 85.0 years; Vinegar Hill’s region 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.
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.
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 Vinegar Hill’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.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 53% against 51%, and 25% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Vinegar Hill is 18th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,080 to 19,988 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granville Entertainment District BC A+ | 19,125 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Central London ON A− | 19,363 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 16 | Overbrook ON A+ | 19,953 | 1.9 km | 56% |
| 17 | Esquimalt BC A+ | 19,512 | 2.0 km | 55% |
| 18 | Vinegar Hill ON A | 19,543 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 19 | Port Alberni BC B− | 19,671 | 2.2 km | 47% |
| 20 | Kirkland QC A | 19,696 | 2.8 km | 54% |
| 40 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC A− | 19,447 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Vinegar Hill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vinegar Hill | 2.1 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Box Grove 1.8 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hagerman's Corners 2.6 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Milliken 3.2 km | 3.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Markham Village 3.8 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Underwood 4.1 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Agincourt North 4.4 km | 2.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Milliken falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 84.7 against 86.3 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Vinegar Hill itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Vinegar Hill
What is the life expectancy in Vinegar Hill?
For the health region that includes Vinegar Hill, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Vinegar Hill?
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 Vinegar Hill from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Vinegar Hill is 3.5 km from a clinic and 0.9 km from a pharmacy.
How is Vinegar Hill’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Vinegar Hill’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).