Photo: WB Robinson Photographer · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Port Colborne’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). For Port Colborne itself the measure is access: 3.0 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Port Colborne is C+, #725 of 866 in Ontario and #2,138 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Port Colborne
More smokers
Around Port Colborne, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (11%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Port Colborne 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: #725 of 866 in Ontario and #2,138 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.
25% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% 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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Port Colborne’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
At 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Port Colborne belongs to reaches 81.2. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.4. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $80,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
From Port Colborne, a hospital is 3.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Port Colborne, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Port Colborne sits near the middle.
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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
The region comes 15th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Port Colborne’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.
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
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 50% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Port Colborne is 25th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (21,450 to 22,376 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 23 | South End NS B+ | 22,012 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 24 | Rockcliffe-Smythe ON A | 22,242 | 2.8 km | 50% |
| 25 | Port Colborne ON C+ | 21,921 | 3.0 km | 49% |
| 26 | Sunningdale ON A− | 21,645 | 3.0 km | 52% |
| 27 | Du College/Hodge QC A | 22,329 | 3.4 km | 54% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Port Colborne
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Port Colborne’s; read across for the hospital trip. Wainfleet is the furthest from care, 10 km to Port Colborne’s 3.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Port Colborne’s own.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Port Colborne
How is Port Colborne’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Port Colborne’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Port Colborne?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Port Colborne?
There is no figure for Port Colborne alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Port Colborne from a hospital?
Residents of Port Colborne have a clinic 2.4 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.6 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).