Photo: Tyeman200 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Tillsonburg’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.6, women 83.0 and men 78.2 (2022/2024). For Tillsonburg itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.5 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Tillsonburg a grade of B−, #659 of 866 in Ontario and #1,944 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Tillsonburg
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Tillsonburg is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.8 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.
Tillsonburg 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: #659 of 866 in Ontario and #1,944 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 1.5 km from the average home in Tillsonburg
Straight-line distances from each part of Tillsonburg, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Tillsonburg are closer than 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Tillsonburg’s region is below the line.
Where residents average 2.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Tillsonburg belongs to trails at 80.6. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 81.4 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 38% 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 21st of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Tillsonburg itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 49% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (50% against 51%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Tillsonburg is 10th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (20,915 to 22,012 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 8 | Black Creek ON A | 21,307 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 9 | Steinbach MB B | 21,671 | 1.4 km | 51% |
| 10 | Tillsonburg ON B− | 21,450 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 11 | Ile-des-Soeurs QC A | 21,568 | 1.5 km | 54% |
| 12 | Oakdale-Beverley Heights ON A | 21,386 | 1.5 km | 50% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Tillsonburg
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tillsonburg | 1.5 km | 49% | 80.6 | B− |
| South-West Oxford 15 km | 6.4 km | 49% | 80.6 | B− |
| Norwich 16 km | 13 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
| Bayham 17 km | 16 km | 49% | 80.6 | C+ |
Every place around Tillsonburg shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Bayham live further from a hospital, at 16 km against 1.5 km in Tillsonburg.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Tillsonburg’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Tillsonburg
How is Tillsonburg’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Tillsonburg’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Tillsonburg?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Tillsonburg?
Women in Tillsonburg’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Tillsonburg from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Tillsonburg is 1.7 km from a clinic and 1.1 km from a pharmacy.
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).