Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0For health, Oakville is ahead of 94% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 54% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.4 km from the average resident of Oakville, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Oakville a grade of A, #48 of 866 in Ontario and #327 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Oakville
Longer lives in the region
Oakville’s region sits 3.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.4 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Oakville’s neighbourhoods average 1.4 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Oakville has 8.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Oakville 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: #48 of 866 in Ontario and #327 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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
The region comes 3rd of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Oakville’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Oakville, a hospital is 3.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Oakville, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Oakville goes.
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.2 years of life
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Oakville’s, lies beneath the trend.
Where residents average 1.6 on the index, regions tend to reach 86.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Oakville belongs to trails at 84.9. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose 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.
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.6% diabetes
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 lower than in the province, at 26% of adults against 30% for Ontario.
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 beats Ontario: 54% very good or excellent, against 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 looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 24% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Oakville is 14th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (105,925 to 243,107 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Catharines ON C+ | 153,865 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 2 | Niagara Falls ON C+ | 113,983 | 2.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Saanich BC A+ | 126,011 | 2.7 km | 55% |
| 12 | Guelph ON B+ | 160,760 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 13 | Cambridge ON A | 165,354 | 3.3 km | 53% |
| 14 | Oakville ON A | 243,107 | 3.4 km | 54% |
| 15 | Trois-Rivières QC A | 149,934 | 3.5 km | 61% |
| 16 | Red Deer AB C+ | 115,409 | 3.5 km | 52% |
| 40 | Terrebonne QC B+ | 126,872 | 9.7 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Oakville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakville | 3.4 km | 54% | 84.9 | A |
| Erin Mills 9.1 km | 2.9 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Sheridan 9.5 km | 4.8 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| South Common 9.6 km | 2.4 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Clarkson - Lorne Park 10 km | 5.5 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Churchill Meadows 11 km | 2.9 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
| Central Erin Mills 12 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 85.3 | A− |
Erin Mills falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 85.3 against 84.9 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Oakville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Oakville
What is the life expectancy in Oakville?
Women in Oakville’s region live to 86.5 on average and men to 83.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Oakville?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Oakville from a hospital?
Residents of Oakville have a clinic 1.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.8 km away, in straight lines.
How is Oakville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Oakville has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).