Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in South Glengarry’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.0 years, 83.0 for a girl and 78.9 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets South Glengarry apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives South Glengarry a grade of C+, #766 of 866 in Ontario and #2,220 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in South Glengarry
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is South Glengarry’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Around South Glengarry, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
South Glengarry 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: #766 of 866 in Ontario and #2,220 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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in South Glengarry
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is South Glengarry’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, South Glengarry is on the far side.
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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 39%, the province 30%. At 22%, 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; South Glengarry’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.2 about 80.3 years; South Glengarry’s region’s 81.0 is within a year of it. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 81.0 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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, 18th 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 South Glengarry’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 no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 27% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
South Glengarry is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,105 to 14,608 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 34 | Val-des-Monts QC B | 14,473 | 11 km | 55% |
| 35 | La Crète AB D | 14,488 | 12 km | 48% |
| 36 | South Glengarry ON C+ | 14,355 | 13 km | 49% |
| 37 | Long Sault ON C | 14,602 | 15 km | 49% |
| 38 | Gravenhurst ON B | 14,576 | 16 km | 54% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around South Glengarry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Glengarry | 13 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Akwesasne 13 km | 12 km | 55% | 82.5 | A− |
| Cornwall 15 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 81.0 | B− |
| Akwesasne (Part) 59 16 km | 14 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Saint-Anicet 17 km | 23 km | 55% | 82.5 | B+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Akwesasne’s life expectancy is 82.5, this region’s 81.0. Residents of Cornwall live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 13 km in South Glengarry.
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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for South Glengarry itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in South Glengarry
How far is South Glengarry from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in South Glengarry is 8.4 km from a clinic and 7.4 km from a pharmacy.
How is South Glengarry’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so South Glengarry has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is South Glengarry?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in South Glengarry?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.9 for men around South Glengarry (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).