Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Middlesex Centre, 52% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.9, women 84.2 and men 79.6 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 9.6 km from the average resident of Middlesex Centre, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Middlesex Centre a grade of B+, #496 of 866 in Ontario and #1,397 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Middlesex Centre
A long way to hospital
Residents of Middlesex Centre live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (5.7 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Fewer households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Middlesex Centre at 1.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
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.
Middlesex Centre grades B+ 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: #496 of 866 in Ontario and #1,397 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 Middlesex Centre, a hospital is 9.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Middlesex Centre’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Middlesex Centre is on the far side.
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.
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 region is 9th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
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 Middlesex Centre’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Middlesex Centre’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Middlesex Centre’s region fits it, 81.9 years at 2.7 against the line’s 81.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 81.3 years in the middle. On income alone, around $80,000 a household, this region would be expected to fare worse than most, yet it lives longer; between regions the link is weak (0.14).
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 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 33% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 53% and 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 53% against 51%, and 22% 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: Middlesex Centre comes 38th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 21,267 to 22,162 people, median 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 36 | Colchester County, Subdivision B NS D | 21,578 | 7.8 km | 42% |
| 37 | Varennes QC A | 21,490 | 8.0 km | 55% |
| 38 | Middlesex Centre ON B+ | 21,689 | 9.6 km | 52% |
| 39 | Red Deer County AB C | 22,076 | 15 km | 52% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Middlesex Centre
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesex Centre | 9.6 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| River Bend 4.3 km | 2.2 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Hyde Park 4.8 km | 3.6 km | 52% | 81.9 | B+ |
| Oakridge 6.2 km | 1.9 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Medway 6.6 km | 2.8 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Byron 7.2 km | 2.2 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
| Sunningdale 8.3 km | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.9 | A− |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Middlesex Centre from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Oakridge is the closest to care, 1.9 km to Middlesex Centre’s 9.6 km.
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.
- 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.
- 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 Middlesex Centre’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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Middlesex Centre
How far is Middlesex Centre from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Middlesex Centre live: 8.0 km to a clinic, 5.4 km to a pharmacy.
How is Middlesex Centre’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Middlesex Centre’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Middlesex Centre?
For the health region that includes Middlesex Centre, women can expect 84.2 years and men 79.6 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Middlesex Centre?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).