Photo: OldYorkGuy · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Annex for health: it beats 90% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Annex is well placed: 1.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Annex a grade of A, #167 of 866 in Ontario and #652 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Annex
A long-lived region
Annex’s region sits 3.2 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 23.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.8 on the deprivation index typically live 81.7 years; Annex’s region, at 84.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Annex: 1.5 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Annex has 118 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 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.
Annex grades A 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: #167 of 866 in Ontario and #652 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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
The region comes 4th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Annex’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 3.0 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Annex’s, lies over the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Annex’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 84.7. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 81.1.
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.
The nearest hospital is 1.2 km from the average home in Annex
Straight-line distances from each part of Annex, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Annex 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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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 lower than in the province, at 23% 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.
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 51% to 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 50% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Annex is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (29,066 to 32,167 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre QC A | 31,113 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 8 | Crémazie QC A | 29,907 | 1.1 km | 54% |
| 9 | Est (Montréal-Nord) QC A | 31,383 | 1.1 km | 54% |
| 10 | Annex ON A | 30,705 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 11 | Vimont QC A | 31,166 | 1.3 km | 53% |
| 12 | Glenfield-Jane Heights ON A | 30,197 | 1.4 km | 50% |
| 40 | Conception Bay South NL C+ | 29,725 | 17 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Annex
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Annex | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| University 1.1 km | 0.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Casa Loma 1.4 km | 2.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Bay-Cloverhill 1.4 km | 0.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Church-Wellesley 1.6 km | 0.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Palmerston-Little Italy 1.9 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Yonge-St.Clair 2.1 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Every place around Annex shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Annex’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Annex
What is the life expectancy in Annex?
Women in Annex’s region live to 87.2 on average and men to 82.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Annex’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Annex: 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 Annex?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Annex from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.5 km from the average resident of Annex and a pharmacy 0.3 km, as the crow flies.
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).