Photo: ChadPerez49 · CC BY-SA 3.0Life expectancy around Wismer Commons is 86.3 years, 4.8 more than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Wismer Commons live 3.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Wismer Commons grades A for health, #289 of 866 in Ontario and #855 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wismer Commons
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Wismer Commons can reach 6.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wismer Commons 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: #289 of 866 in Ontario and #855 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 Wismer Commons: 3.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wismer Commons’ own, not the region’s.
Wismer Commons 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.
The region lives 1.3 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Wismer Commons’ region comes out above the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 1.9 at 85.0 years of life; Wismer Commons’ region does better, at 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
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.
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Wismer Commons’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
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
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Wismer Commons comes 26th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 20,055 to 21,144 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Upper Lachine QC A | 21,130 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 24 | White Oaks ON A− | 21,108 | 2.5 km | 52% |
| 25 | Fenside-Parkwoods ON A | 20,615 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 26 | Wismer Commons ON A | 20,591 | 3.7 km | 51% |
| 27 | Baie-Comeau QC B+ | 20,660 | 4.0 km | 61% |
| 28 | Huron Heights ON B+ | 20,890 | 4.0 km | 52% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wismer Commons
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wismer Commons | 3.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Mount Joy 1.6 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Greensborough 1.8 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Quantztown 2.0 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Berczy Village 2.3 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Markham Village 2.4 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Upper Cornell 3.6 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Around Wismer Commons 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
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Wismer Commons shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wismer Commons
What is the life expectancy in Wismer Commons?
For the health region that includes Wismer Commons, women can expect 87.9 years and men 84.6 (2022/2024).
How is Wismer Commons’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Wismer Commons: 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 Wismer Commons?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Wismer Commons from a hospital?
Residents of Wismer Commons have a clinic 3.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.9 km away, in straight lines.
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).