Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Life expectancy around Greely is 83.7 years, 2.2 more than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Greely’s is long: 17 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Greely grades A− for health, #347 of 866 in Ontario and #964 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Greely
A long way to hospital
Distance is Greely’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Greely is well below the typical town’s; 5.9% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Easier circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Greely at 1.5 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
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.
Greely 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: #347 of 866 in Ontario and #964 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 Greely, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Greely’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, Greely 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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 50% very good or excellent to 51%; 25% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Greely’s 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Greely’s, follows the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.3 about 83.6 years; Greely’s region’s 83.7 is within a year of it. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 83.0.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Greely is 38th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 10,150 to 10,571 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Central ON B+ | 10,392 | 0.6 km | 52% |
| 2 | City Centre ON B+ | 10,269 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Professors Lake ON A− | 10,335 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 36 | Corman Park No. 344 SK B | 10,463 | 14 km | 49% |
| 37 | Lynden ON B− | 10,442 | 14 km | 53% |
| 38 | Greely ON A− | 10,359 | 17 km | 56% |
| 39 | Wheatland County AB A− | 10,150 | 20 km | 56% |
| 40 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands ON C+ | 10,185 | 26 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Greely
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greely | 17 km | 56% | 83.7 | A− |
| Manotick 7.4 km | 16 km | 56% | 83.7 | A− |
| Findlay Creek 7.4 km | 9.7 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Riverside South - Leitrim 7.9 km | 12 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Metcalfe 9.9 km | 18 km | 56% | 83.7 | A− |
| Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights 10 km | 9.5 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
| Chapman Mills 11 km | 9.8 km | 56% | 83.7 | A |
Around Greely 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
- 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.
- 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: Greely shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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 Greely
How far is Greely from a hospital?
Residents of Greely have a clinic 8.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.7 km away, in straight lines.
How is Greely’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Greely’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Greely?
For the health region that includes Greely, women can expect 85.7 years and men 81.6 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Greely?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
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).