Photo: Eric Marshall · CC BY 3.0Around Smithville, 49% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Smithville, further than the usual 3.7 km. Smithville grades C for health, #782 of 866 in Ontario and #2,247 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Smithville
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Smithville than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Smithville live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 25% report high blood pressure and 11% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Smithville 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: #782 of 866 in Ontario and #2,247 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
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Ontario: 32%, the province 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.
Getting to hospital from Smithville: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Smithville’s own, not the region’s.
From Smithville 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Smithville’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Smithville’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 81.4 years. Modest pay, about $80,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 15th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Smithville’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 50% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Smithville is 39th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 16,119 to 17,073 people, median 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Scarborough Village ON A | 16,774 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 37 | Surrey Centre BC A | 16,482 | 9.1 km | 50% |
| 38 | Stayner ON B+ | 16,571 | 9.8 km | 54% |
| 39 | Smithville ON C | 16,586 | 12 km | 49% |
| 40 | Leduc County AB B− | 16,400 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Smithville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Smithville | 12 km | 49% | 81.2 | C |
| Grimsby 11 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Beamsville 13 km | 7.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Fifty Point 16 km | 8.4 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Industrial 16 km | 8.5 km | 53% | 81.2 | B− |
| Trillium 18 km | 7.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Westmeria 18 km | 5.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Fifty Point’s life expectancy is 81.2, this region’s 81.2. Residents of Grimsby live nearer a hospital, at 2.7 km against 12 km in Smithville.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Smithville alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Smithville
How is Smithville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Smithville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Smithville from a hospital?
Residents of Smithville have a clinic 5.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.8 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Smithville?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Smithville?
There is no figure for Smithville alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 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).