Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.049% of adults around Plattsville rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 80.6 years on average: women 83.0, men 78.2, in 2022/2024. For Plattsville itself the measure is access, and it lags: 14 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Plattsville grades C+ for health, #731 of 866 in Ontario and #2,151 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Plattsville
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Plattsville’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Plattsville 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: #731 of 866 in Ontario and #2,151 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.
Getting to hospital from Plattsville: 14 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Plattsville, weighted by who lives there.
From Plattsville that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Plattsville’s lies below the line.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.9 about 81.4 years of life. Plattsville’s region falls short of it, at 80.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 8 still live longer, with 81.4 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.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
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.
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 21st.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Plattsville itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 49% 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
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 23% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Plattsville is 34th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,135 to 8,375 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | G-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 8,224 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Valley Gardens MB B+ | 8,329 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Ponoka AB C+ | 8,212 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 32 | Torbay NL C+ | 8,297 | 9.3 km | 54% |
| 33 | Bayfield ON B− | 8,327 | 13 km | 45% |
| 34 | Plattsville ON C+ | 8,251 | 14 km | 49% |
| 35 | Aylmer ON C+ | 8,371 | 16 km | 49% |
| 36 | Alnwick/Haldimand ON C | 8,197 | 18 km | 49% |
| 40 | Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est NB C | 8,138 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Plattsville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plattsville | 14 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
| Ayr 13 km | 9.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A− |
| Paris 16 km | 7.3 km | 43% | 80.4 | C+ |
| Rosenberg 18 km | 2.8 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Huron South 18 km | 2.9 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Woodstock 18 km | 2.1 km | 49% | 80.6 | B− |
| Doon South 19 km | 4.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Ayr falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 82.8 against 80.6 here. Woodstock is the closest to care, 2.1 km to Plattsville’s 14 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Plattsville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
Questions about health in Plattsville
How far is Plattsville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Plattsville is 14 km from a clinic and 6.9 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Plattsville?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Plattsville?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Plattsville’s health region only: 83.0 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How is Plattsville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Plattsville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).