Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Perry trails 89% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 47% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Perry, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Perry is D, #854 of 866 in Ontario and #2,499 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Perry
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Perry is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Perry’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 22 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Perry, a pharmacy is 20 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.7, would put Perry’s region near 78.2 years; it reaches 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Perry grades D 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: #854 of 866 in Ontario and #2,499 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 (27%) and diabetes (9.7%)
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
At 36%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 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.
Getting to hospital from Perry: 20 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Perry, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Perry 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.8 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Perry’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Perry’s region beats it: 80.0 years against the 78.2 the trend gives a score of 3.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 78.2 years in the middle.
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.
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 24th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Perry’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent, against 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Stress touches 25% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 49%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Perry is 30th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,832 to 2,899 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 28 | Navan - Sarsfield ON A− | 2,853 | 17 km | 56% |
| 29 | Bedford QC A− | 2,845 | 20 km | 57% |
| 30 | Perry ON D | 2,866 | 20 km | 47% |
| 31 | Rougemont QC A− | 2,832 | 20 km | 55% |
| 32 | Labelle QC A | 2,861 | 21 km | 60% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Perry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perry | 20 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
| Armour 8.1 km | 33 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
| Kearney 10 km | 28 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
| Burk's Falls 13 km | 35 km | 47% | 80.0 | D |
Around Perry the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Burk's Falls live further from a hospital, at 35 km against 20 km in Perry.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Perry alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Perry
How far is Perry from a hospital?
For everyday care, Perry’s residents are 20 km from a pharmacy and 15 km from a clinic on average.
How is Perry’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Perry’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Perry?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Perry?
For the health region that includes Perry, women can expect 82.6 years and men 77.6 (2022/2024).
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).