Photo: norgo · CC BY-SA 3.054% of adults around Severn rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.5 and men to 79.5, 81.5 years taken together (2022/2024). For Severn itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Severn a grade of B, #539 of 866 in Ontario and #1,654 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Severn
Far from a hospital
Distance is Severn’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 7.5 km. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Severn 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: #539 of 866 in Ontario and #1,654 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.
From Severn, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Severn’s own, not the region’s.
Severn is further out 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Severn’s, follows the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Severn belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.5 years, the trend 81.5. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 81.2.
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
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 12th 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Severn’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more 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
Stress touches 24% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Severn comes 37th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,359 to 16,073 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Little Portugal ON A | 15,669 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 35 | Gaspé QC C+ | 15,479 | 9.9 km | 56% |
| 36 | Corunna ON C+ | 15,872 | 13 km | 49% |
| 37 | Severn ON B | 15,716 | 13 km | 54% |
| 38 | Dorchester ON B | 15,475 | 13 km | 52% |
| 39 | Sainte-Anne-des-Plaines QC A | 15,904 | 14 km | 60% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Severn
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Severn | 13 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
| Orillia 7.1 km | 1.8 km | 54% | 81.5 | A− |
| Chippewas of Rama First Nation 8.7 km | 8.7 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Oro-Medonte 17 km | 12 km | 54% | 81.5 | B+ |
| Ramara 18 km | 12 km | 54% | 81.5 | B |
Severn and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Orillia live nearer a hospital, at 1.8 km against 13 km in Severn.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Severn 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Severn
How far is Severn from a hospital?
Residents of Severn have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 7.2 km away, in straight lines.
How is Severn’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Severn has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Severn?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Severn?
For the health region that includes Severn, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.5 (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).