Photo: Benjamin Pickles · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Paris, 43% rate their health very good or excellent, against 52% for the typical Canadian town
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 80.4 years at birth, 82.6 for women and 78.2 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.3 km from the average resident of Paris, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Paris a grade of C+, #745 of 866 in Ontario and #2,180 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Paris
A heavier load of illness
High blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.6%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Paris runs 1.1 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.9 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Paris grades C+ 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: #745 of 866 in Ontario and #2,180 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.6%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 38% 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.
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 23rd of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Paris’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Paris’, follows the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Paris’ region fits it, 80.4 years at 3.1 against the line’s 80.6. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 80.3.
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.
From Paris, a hospital is 7.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Paris’ own, not the region’s.
From Paris that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 2.9 km, while the average resident is 7.3 km away.
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 43% 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 trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent to 51%, with 26% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Paris is 32nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 39,668 to 51,756 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 2 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 3 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 30 | Sullivan BC A | 42,135 | 6.5 km | 50% |
| 31 | Rouyn-Noranda QC B | 43,270 | 7.1 km | 57% |
| 32 | Paris ON C+ | 45,565 | 7.3 km | 43% |
| 33 | West Vancouver BC A+ | 47,929 | 7.5 km | 59% |
| 34 | Alliston ON B+ | 50,739 | 7.9 km | 54% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Paris
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris | 7.3 km | 43% | 80.4 | C+ |
| Brantford 9.6 km | 3.1 km | 43% | 80.4 | C+ |
| Ayr 14 km | 9.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A− |
| Plattsville 16 km | 14 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Ayr’s life expectancy is 82.8, this region’s 80.4. Residents of Plattsville live further from a hospital, at 14 km against 7.3 km in Paris.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Paris 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. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Paris
How healthy is Paris?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Paris?
For the health region that includes Paris, women can expect 82.6 years and men 78.2 (2022/2024).
How far is Paris from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Paris live: 5.5 km to a clinic, 5.8 km to a pharmacy.
How is Paris’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Paris 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).