Maple Leaf scores better for health than 90% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.2 km from the average resident of Maple Leaf, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Maple Leaf grades A for health, #167 of 866 in Ontario and #652 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Maple Leaf
Life expectancy above the norm
Maple Leaf’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 ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Maple Leaf’s region beats what its deprivation score of 2.8 predicts: 84.7 years against 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Maple Leaf; from its centre of population the trip is 1.1 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 32 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Maple Leaf is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Maple Leaf 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Maple Leaf’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
3.0 more years of life than regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Maple Leaf’s lies above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Maple Leaf’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 84.7. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.2 km from the average home in Maple Leaf
Straight-line distances from each part of Maple Leaf, weighted by who lives there.
From Maple Leaf 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.
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.
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
Mental health is no outlier: 50% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Maple Leaf is 4th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,901 to 10,185 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-des-Fées QC B+ | 10,075 | 0.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | Vincent ON B | 10,011 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 3 | Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills ON A | 9,909 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 4 | Maple Leaf ON A | 10,040 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 5 | Taber AB B− | 10,175 | 1.3 km | 52% |
| 6 | Bridgewater NS C− | 9,989 | 1.4 km | 44% |
| 40 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands ON C+ | 10,185 | 26 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Maple Leaf
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Leaf | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Downsview 1.7 km | 1.3 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Rustic 1.8 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Yorkdale-Glen Park 1.9 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Brookhaven-Amesbury 2.0 km | 1.2 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Oakdale-Beverley Heights 2.4 km | 1.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Beechborough-Greenbrook 2.5 km | 0.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
The neighbours all sit in Maple Leaf’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Maple Leaf alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
Questions about health in Maple Leaf
What is the life expectancy in Maple Leaf?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.2 for women, 82.0 for men around Maple Leaf (2022/2024).
How is Maple Leaf’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Maple Leaf has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Maple Leaf?
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 Maple Leaf from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Maple Leaf is 1.9 km from a clinic and 0.7 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).