Photo: Michael Gil from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0Health in Junction Area beats 89% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.4 km from the average resident of Junction Area, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Junction Area is A, #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Junction Area
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Junction Area 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 ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 2.8 on the deprivation index typically live 81.7 years; Junction Area’s region, at 84.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Junction Area; from its centre of population the trip is 1.4 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 50 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.3 km off, Junction Area is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Junction Area 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: #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Junction Area’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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 3.0 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Junction Area’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Junction Area’s region does better with 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.
Getting to hospital from Junction Area: 1.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Junction Area, weighted by who lives there.
From Junction Area that is nearer than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (18%) and diabetes (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
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 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.
Junction Area is 7th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,940 to 14,477 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 5 | Riverview ON A+ | 14,030 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 6 | Louis-Hébert QC A | 14,284 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 7 | Junction Area ON A | 14,205 | 1.4 km | 50% |
| 8 | River West ON B+ | 13,940 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 9 | Plateau QC A+ | 14,176 | 1.7 km | 62% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Junction Area
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junction Area | 1.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| High Park North 1.2 km | 0.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Weston-Pelham Park 1.2 km | 0.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Runnymede-Bloor West Village 1.5 km | 2.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Junction-Wallace Emerson 2.1 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Rockcliffe-Smythe 2.1 km | 2.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Lambton Baby Point 2.1 km | 2.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Every place around Junction Area shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Junction Area itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Junction Area
How is Junction Area’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Junction Area’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Junction Area?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.2 for women, 82.0 for men around Junction Area (2022/2024).
How healthy is Junction Area?
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 Junction Area from a hospital?
For everyday care, Junction Area’s residents are 0.3 km from a pharmacy and 1.4 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).