Photo: Municipal Affairs and Housing · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 54% of adults in Orillia’s health region
People in the region live to 81.5 on average: 83.5 for women and 79.5 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Orillia apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Orillia is A−, #422 of 866 in Ontario and #1,106 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Orillia
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Orillia has 5.7 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.0 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Orillia 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: #422 of 866 in Ontario and #1,106 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 Orillia
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Orillia’s own, not the region’s.
Orillia 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.
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 Orillia’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Orillia’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.5, near enough. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.2 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 (20%) and diabetes (8%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 20% 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 12th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Orillia’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 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
The region’s 49% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
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: Orillia comes 8th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 34,965 to 40,297 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 6 | Sunset BC A+ | 37,186 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 7 | Stratford ON B | 36,097 | 1.8 km | 45% |
| 8 | Orillia ON A− | 37,735 | 1.8 km | 54% |
| 9 | Kensington-Cedar Cottage BC A+ | 39,668 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 10 | Penticton BC B+ | 39,068 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Orillia
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Orillia | 1.8 km | 54% | 81.5 | A− |
| Severn 7.1 km | 13 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
| Chippewas of Rama First Nation 8.3 km | 8.7 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Oro-Medonte 14 km | 12 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Ramara 16 km | 12 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Orillia’s; read across for the hospital trip. Severn is the furthest from care, 13 km to Orillia’s 1.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Orillia 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Orillia
How is Orillia’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Orillia’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Orillia?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Orillia from a hospital?
Residents of Orillia have a clinic 1.4 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.0 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Orillia?
Women in Orillia’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).