Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.054% of adults around Ramara rate their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.5, women 83.5 and men 79.5 (2022/2024). What sets Ramara apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Ramara a grade of B, #531 of 866 in Ontario and #1,627 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ramara
A long way to hospital
Residents of Ramara live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Ramara 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: #531 of 866 in Ontario and #1,627 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 Ramara: 12 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Ramara, weighted by who lives there.
From Ramara 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Ramara’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.5 years; Ramara’s region’s 81.5 is within a year of it. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 years.
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.
High blood pressure for 20% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 34%, the province 30%. At 20%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 12th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Ramara’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 beats Ontario: 54% 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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 49% very good or excellent to 51%; 24% 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.
Ramara is 33rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,326 to 11,740 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milton-Parc QC A | 11,369 | 0.2 km | 54% |
| 2 | New Toronto ON A | 11,502 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Banff AB A+ | 11,402 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 31 | New Kleinburg ON A− | 11,333 | 9.4 km | 51% |
| 32 | Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot QC A | 11,716 | 10 km | 55% |
| 33 | Ramara ON B | 11,551 | 12 km | 54% |
| 34 | Cardinal Creek ON A | 11,676 | 13 km | 56% |
| 35 | Morden MB C+ | 11,578 | 14 km | 51% |
| 40 | Chester NS D− | 11,740 | 25 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ramara
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramara | 12 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
| Chippewas of Rama First Nation 9.2 km | 8.7 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Orillia 16 km | 1.8 km | 54% | 81.5 | A− |
| Severn 18 km | 13 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
The neighbours all sit in Ramara’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Orillia live nearer a hospital, at 1.8 km against 12 km in Ramara.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Ramara’s own.
Questions about health in Ramara
How is Ramara’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Ramara’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Ramara from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Ramara is 11 km from a clinic and 8.3 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Ramara?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Ramara?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Ramara’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.5 for men (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).