Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0For health, Carp is ahead of 92% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole manages 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.2 km from the average resident of Carp, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Carp is A, #79 of 866 in Ontario and #439 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Carp
A long-lived region
Born around Carp, a child can expect 2.2 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 22.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer smokers
Around Carp, only 5.9% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Carp’s neighbourhoods average 1.2 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.1 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 56% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Carp 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: #79 of 866 in Ontario and #439 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 5th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Carp’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (6.6%)
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Ontario: 29%, the province 30%.
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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 56% 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 50% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Carp’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.6 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Carp belongs to reaches 83.7. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 83.0 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.
The nearest hospital is 7.2 km from the average home in Carp
Straight-line distances from each part of Carp, weighted by who lives there.
Carp is further out 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Carp is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,533 to 5,728 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Bankview AB A+ | 5,610 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 25 | Emerald Woods - Sawmill Creek ON A | 5,714 | 5.1 km | 56% |
| 26 | Creditview ON B+ | 5,598 | 6.8 km | 49% |
| 27 | Carp ON A | 5,621 | 7.2 km | 56% |
| 28 | Orford QC A | 5,698 | 9.2 km | 57% |
| 29 | Annapolis County, Subdivision C NS D | 5,694 | 13 km | 44% |
| 40 | Chertsey QC B | 5,678 | 30 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Carp
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carp | 7.2 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Brookside - Briarbrook - Morgans Grant 7.4 km | 5.6 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Kanata Lakes 8.4 km | 8.7 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Dunrobin 9.4 km | 5.1 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Corkery 9.5 km | 10 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Beaverbrook 10 km | 7.3 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Stittsville North 11 km | 12 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
Around Carp the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Stittsville North is the furthest from care, 12 km to Carp’s 7.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Carp shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
Questions about health in Carp
What is the life expectancy in Carp?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.7 for women, 81.6 for men around Carp (2022/2024).
How healthy is Carp?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Carp’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Carp’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Carp from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Carp live: 2.8 km to a clinic, 2.8 km to a pharmacy.
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).