Photo: Gogerr · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Thorold, 49% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.5 km from the average resident of Thorold, about the norm of 3.7 km. The Health grade for Thorold is C+, #729 of 866 in Ontario and #2,149 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Thorold
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Thorold is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 25% of adults, diabetes for 11%. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Thorold has 4.8 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.7 km away. 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.
Thorold 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: #729 of 866 in Ontario and #2,149 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 30% for Ontario.
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 Thorold: 3.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Thorold’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Thorold travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Thorold’s lies near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Thorold belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.9 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.4. Households here earn around $80,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 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.
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
The region comes 15th 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 Thorold’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.
48% 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
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 50% against 51%, and 20% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Thorold comes 26th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 31,478 to 36,473 people, median 3.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 2 | Sainte-Marie QC A | 33,699 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 3 | Fairview BC A+ | 33,969 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 24 | Edmonds BC A | 34,805 | 3.4 km | 48% |
| 25 | Fergus ON B+ | 34,565 | 3.5 km | 51% |
| 26 | Thorold ON C+ | 33,844 | 3.5 km | 49% |
| 27 | Langley BC A | 35,444 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 28 | North Cowichan BC B− | 34,525 | 3.6 km | 47% |
| 40 | Parkland County AB B− | 34,286 | 15 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Thorold
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorold | 3.5 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| St. Catharines 7.3 km | 2.6 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Niagara Falls 9.5 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Pelham 10 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Welland 13 km | 2.4 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Niagara-on-the-Lake 15 km | 4.4 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Beamsville 18 km | 7.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
Thorold and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Pelham is the furthest from care, 8.0 km to Thorold’s 3.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Thorold shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Thorold
How is Thorold’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Thorold: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Thorold?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Thorold?
There is no figure for Thorold alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Thorold from a hospital?
For everyday care, Thorold’s residents are 1.7 km from a pharmacy and 2.0 km from a clinic on average.
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).