Photo: Earl Andrew at en.wikipedia · Public domainHealth in Riverview beats 97% of Canadian towns
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 Riverview is well placed: 1.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Riverview a grade of A+, #10 of 866 in Ontario and #136 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Riverview
Longer lives in the region
Born around Riverview, 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 ↓
A region that smokes less
Around Riverview, only 5.9% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 4.1 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (56% as answered). Health survey ↓
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Riverview is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.7 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Riverview 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: #10 of 866 in Ontario and #136 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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 5th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Riverview’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.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.6% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for Ontario: 29% report obesity, 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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 50% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 25% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Riverview, a hospital is 1.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Riverview, weighted by who lives there.
Riverview 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Riverview’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Riverview belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.7 years, the trend 83.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, 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.
Riverview is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,766 to 14,347 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 4 | Greenwood-Coxwell ON A | 14,146 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 5 | Ville-Émard QC A | 13,826 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 6 | Riverview ON A+ | 14,030 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 7 | Louis-Hébert QC A | 14,284 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 8 | Junction Area ON A | 14,205 | 1.4 km | 50% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Riverview
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | 1.1 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Elmvale - Canterbury 2.1 km | 1.7 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Old Ottawa East 2.3 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates 2.3 km | 1.5 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Alta Vista 2.4 km | 0.9 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Overbrook 2.5 km | 1.9 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
| Hawthorn Meadows - Sheffield Glen 2.8 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 83.7 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Riverview’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Riverview itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Riverview
How is Riverview’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 Riverview’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Riverview?
Women in Riverview’s region live to 85.7 on average and men to 81.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Riverview?
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 16% of adults.
How far is Riverview from a hospital?
Residents of Riverview have a clinic 0.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.5 km away, in straight lines.
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).