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Aerial View of Widder St E and James St N in St. Marys, OntarioPhoto: Gogerr · CC BY-SA 4.0
BHealth Grade
Health in St. Marys · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada

Very good or excellent health for just 45% of adults around St. Marys; the typical Canadian town: 52%

Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.7, women 83.7 and men 79.7 (2022/2024). For St. Marys itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives St. Marys a grade of B, #531 of 866 in Ontario and #1,627 of 2,583 Canadian towns.

81.7years, life expectancy (region)1.4 kmto a hospital, residents’ average12%of adults smoke (region)
Very good or excellent health
45%
adults, age-standardised
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Huron Perth Health Unit
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.7
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.7 · men 79.7
Nearest hospital
1.4 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about health in St. Marys

1.4 kmresidents’ average to a hospital; typical town 3.7 km

A hospital close by

Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as St. Marys; from its centre of population the trip is 1.0 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.

Health Grade

St. Marys 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.

Very good or excellent health (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 66% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.4 km)Better than 90% of Canadian towns

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 care

The nearest hospital is 1.4 km from the average home in St. Marys

Straight-line distances from each part of St. Marys, weighted by who lives there.

Hospital
1.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.0 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces

Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, St. Marys is on the near 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.

For its deprivation

On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it

102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and St. Marys’ region shows close to the trend.

646872768084882345Eastern Urban Zone: 80.2 (women 82.1, men 78.2)Eastern Rural Zone: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.4)Central Zone: 79.0 (women 80.5, men 77.4)Western Zone: 78.5 (women 81.1, men 76.0)Labrador-Grenfell Zone: 77.1 (women 79.2, men 74.6)Prince Edward Island: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.1)Zone 1 - Western: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.6)Zone 2 - Northern: 79.3 (women 81.5, men 77.1)Zone 3 - Eastern: 78.8 (women 80.9, men 76.6)Zone 4 - Central: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.3)Zone 1 (Moncton area): 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Zone 2 (Saint John area): 79.3 (women 81.1, men 77.3)Zone 3 (Fredericton area): 80.1 (women 81.9, men 78.2)Zone 4 (Edmundston area): 79.1 (women 80.7, men 77.3)Zone 5 (Campbellton area): 79.0 (women 82.3, men 75.3)Zone 6 (Bathurst area): 80.2 (women 82.7, men 77.8)Zone 7 (Miramichi area): 78.9 (women 82.0, men 75.7)Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent: 81.7 (women 83.1, men 80.3)Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: 81.8 (women 83.2, men 80.4)Région de la Capitale-Nationale: 82.9 (women 84.7, men 81.1)Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec: 81.6 (women 83.3, men 79.9)Région de l'Estrie: 82.9 (women 84.8, men 81.0)Région de Montréal: 83.4 (women 85.5, men 81.2)Région de l'Outaouais: 80.7 (women 82.2, men 79.1)Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 79.5 (women 81.6, men 77.6)Région de la Côte-Nord: 79.4 (women 82.1, men 77.0)Région du Nord-du-Québec: 78.1 (women 78.5, men 77.6)Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: 79.9 (women 81.6, men 78.2)Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches: 82.8 (women 84.4, men 81.3)Région de Laval: 84.1 (women 85.7, men 82.4)Région de Lanaudière: 82.0 (women 83.7, men 80.3)Région des Laurentides: 82.2 (women 83.7, men 80.8)Région de la Montérégie: 82.5 (women 84.2, men 80.8)Région du Nunavik: 65.2 (women 70.3, men 60.7)Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James: 76.8 (women 79.1, men 73.1)The District of Algoma Health Unit: 77.9 (women 80.4, men 75.6)Brant County Health Unit: 80.4 (women 82.6, men 78.2)Durham Regional Health Unit: 82.6 (women 84.7, men 80.5)Grey Bruce Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.6, men 78.9)Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit: 79.6 (women 81.9, men 77.6)Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 79.0)Halton Regional Health Unit: 84.9 (women 86.5, men 83.2)City of Hamilton Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.5, men 79.0)Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit: 79.8 (women 81.8, men 77.8)Chatham-Kent Health Unit: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.3)Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: 81.8 (women 83.9, men 79.5)Lambton Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.2, men 77.8)Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.2)Middlesex-London Health Unit: 81.9 (women 84.2, men 79.6)Niagara Regional Area Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.6, men 77.6)Northwestern Health Unit: 73.7 (women 75.2, men 72.3)Huron Perth Health Unit: 81.7 (women 83.7, men 79.7)City of Ottawa Health Unit: 83.7 (women 85.7, men 81.6)Peel Regional Health Unit: 85.3 (women 87.2, men 83.3)Peterborough County—City Health Unit: 80.5 (women 82.8, men 78.1)Porcupine Health Unit: 77.3 (women 80.1, men 74.6)Renfrew County and District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.7)The Eastern Ontario Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.9)Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit: 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Sudbury and District Health Unit: 79.1 (women 82.0, men 76.3)Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 76.5 (women 79.0, men 74.1)Timiskaming Health Unit: 77.0 (women 80.3, men 73.6)Waterloo Health Unit: 82.8 (women 84.9, men 80.7)Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: 82.4 (women 84.5, men 80.2)Windsor-Essex County Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.5, men 79.2)York Regional Health Unit: 86.3 (women 87.9, men 84.6)Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit: 80.6 (women 83.0, men 78.2)City of Toronto Health Unit: 84.7 (women 87.2, men 82.0)Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.5)Prairie Mountain Health Region: 78.8 (women 81.2, men 76.6)Interlake-Eastern Health Region: 78.5 (women 81.3, men 76.0)Northern Health Region: 68.5 (women 70.5, men 66.9)Southern Health Region: 80.7 (women 82.9, men 78.7)Far North: 70.0 (women 72.8, men 67.3)North Central West: 76.6 (women 79.8, men 73.7)North Central East: 77.0 (women 79.6, men 74.5)Saskatoon: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.2)South West: 79.9 (women 82.5, men 77.5)South East: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.5)Regina: 80.2 (women 82.3, men 78.0)South Zone: 78.7 (women 80.6, men 76.8)Calgary Zone: 83.0 (women 85.0, men 80.9)Central Zone: 79.1 (women 81.7, men 76.6)Edmonton Zone: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Zone: 78.3 (women 80.9, men 76.1)East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: 80.5 (women 82.7, men 78.1)Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.8, men 76.5)Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area: 81.0 (women 84.1, men 78.2)Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area: 78.8 (women 81.8, men 76.0)Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area: 80.0 (women 82.9, men 77.2)Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area: 84.4 (women 86.6, men 82.1)Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area: 83.2 (women 85.8, men 80.7)Richmond Health Service Delivery Area: 86.8 (women 89.0, men 84.4)Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area: 83.3 (women 86.5, men 80.2)North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area: 84.3 (women 86.3, men 82.3)South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 82.7 (women 84.9, men 80.5)Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.8 (women 82.6, men 77.1)North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.3, men 76.9)Northwest Health Service Delivery Area: 77.0 (women 79.2, men 75.0)Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area: 76.6 (women 79.5, men 74.0)Northeast Health Service Delivery Area: 76.9 (women 79.5, men 74.4)St. Marys’ region 81.7
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)

Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region St. Marys belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.7 years, the trend 81.4. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.

Conditions and habits

19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.1% diabetes

What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.

Conditions and weight · 2023/2024

High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
7.1%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%

Habits · 2023/2024

Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario

More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 40%, the province 30%. At 25%, 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 wider area

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.

81.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
11th
longest of 34 regions in Ontario

Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024

York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7

Ranked 11th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.

Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived

Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency3.8
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability2.3

Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; St. Marys’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.

Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.

Health survey

44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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

Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
73%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario

Mental health trails Ontario: 47% very good or excellent to 51%, with 17% facing stressful days.

Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.

Towns its size

Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: St. Marys comes 5th of 40

The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,084 to 8,318 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.

#TownPeopleHospitalVery good health
1G-Section (bramalea) ON A−8,2240.9 km49%
2Wolseley MB B+8,1271.0 km52%
3Ponoka AB C+8,2121.2 km52%
4Rocky Mountain House AB C+8,1441.2 km52%
5St. Marys ON B8,2031.4 km45%
6Al Ritchie SK B+8,0871.5 km49%
7Old Ottawa East ON A+8,3081.6 km56%
40Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est NB C8,13832 km43%

The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.

Neighbours

Health in the places around St. Marys

Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.

Perth South: Health Grade BStratford: Health Grade BPerth SouthStratfordSt. Marys
ABCD
TownHospitalVery good healthLife exp.Health
St. Marys1.4 km45%81.7B
Perth South
4.7 km		7.4 km45%81.7B
Stratford
18 km		1.8 km45%81.7B

Same region, same survey: St. Marys’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Perth South is the furthest from care, 7.4 km to St. Marys’ 1.4 km.

How to read these numbers

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. 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.
  • 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.
  • 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. Only the distances on this page belong to St. Marys alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.

Questions about health in St. Marys

How healthy is St. Marys?

Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.

How is St. Marys’ Health Grade worked out?

Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so St. Marys has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.

How far is St. Marys from a hospital?

Beyond the hospital, the average home in St. Marys is 0.8 km from a clinic and 1.0 km from a pharmacy.

What is the life expectancy in St. Marys?

Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.7 for women, 79.7 for men around St. Marys (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).