Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Expect 80.0 years of life in the region around Petrolia, 1.5 under the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Petrolia is well placed: 0.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Petrolia grades B− for health, #684 of 866 in Ontario and #2,017 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Petrolia
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Petrolia’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 2.8 predicts: 80.0 years against 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Petrolia than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, Petrolia is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.2 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Petrolia grades B− 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: #684 of 866 in Ontario and #2,017 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.7 years behind the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Petrolia’s dot is marked, under the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Petrolia belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.8 predicts: 80.0 years, where the trend gives 81.7. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.3 years. A household income of about $83,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.4%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% to the province’s 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 Petrolia: 0.7 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Petrolia, weighted by who lives there.
Petrolia 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.
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
Ranked 24th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
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; Petrolia’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.
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 51% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Petrolia comes 3rd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,337 to 6,504 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 4 | Glamorgan AB A+ | 6,479 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 5 | Garden Village BC A | 6,492 | 1.4 km | 48% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Petrolia
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Petrolia | 0.7 km | 49% | 80.0 | B− |
| Enniskillen 2.1 km | 5.6 km | 49% | 80.0 | C+ |
| Plympton-Wyoming 13 km | 11 km | 49% | 80.0 | C+ |
The neighbours all sit in Petrolia’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Plympton-Wyoming is the furthest from care, 11 km to Petrolia’s 0.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Petrolia itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Petrolia
What is the life expectancy in Petrolia?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Petrolia’s health region only: 82.2 years for women and 77.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Petrolia?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Petrolia’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Petrolia has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Petrolia from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Petrolia is 1.0 km from a clinic and 1.0 km from 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).