Photo: GTD Aquitaine · Public domainFew places match Ionview for health: it beats 87% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Ionview apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Ionview grades A for health, #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ionview
Life expectancy above the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Ionview runs 3.2 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 23.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.8 on the deprivation index typically live 81.7 years; Ionview’s region, at 84.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Ionview’s neighbourhoods average 4.1 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Ionview has 28 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.4 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Ionview 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: #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 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
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, 4th 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 Ionview’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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 3.0 years more here
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Ionview’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 2.8, Ionview’s region would be expected to reach 81.7 years; it reaches 84.7. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 81.1 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.
Getting to hospital from Ionview: 2.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ionview’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Ionview here: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital and 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.
High blood pressure for 18% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is below Ontario’s 30%.
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%
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (50% against 51%), while 22% call most days stressful.
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: Ionview comes 16th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,146 to 13,630 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Queen West ON A | 13,599 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Durand ON B+ | 13,338 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Vanier QC A+ | 13,494 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 14 | Mount Dennis ON A | 13,364 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 15 | Springdale ON A− | 13,221 | 2.3 km | 49% |
| 16 | Ionview ON A | 13,382 | 2.4 km | 50% |
| 17 | Dolbeau-Mistassini QC A+ | 13,581 | 2.7 km | 66% |
| 18 | Quantztown ON A | 13,146 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Bonnyville No. 87 AB D | 13,265 | 16 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ionview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ionview | 2.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Kennedy Park 1.4 km | 2.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Clairlea-Birchmount 2.2 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Eglinton East 2.3 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Bendale South 2.5 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Victoria Village 2.9 km | 2.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Cliffcrest 3.0 km | 2.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Around Ionview the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Ionview’s own.
- 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.
- 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 Ionview
What is the life expectancy in Ionview?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Ionview’s health region only: 87.2 years for women and 82.0 for men (2022/2024).
How is Ionview’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Ionview’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Ionview?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Ionview from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Ionview live: 2.1 km to a clinic, 0.4 km to 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).