Photo: Jeff Hitchcock from Seattle, WA, USA · CC BY 2.0Health in Morningside 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%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.9 km from the average resident of Morningside, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Morningside grades A for health, #131 of 866 in Ontario and #586 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Morningside
Longer lives in the region
Morningside’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
For a deprivation score of 2.8, the trend across regions gives 81.7 years of life; Morningside’s region reaches 84.7. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Morningside; from its centre of population the trip is 0.3 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Morningside has 18 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 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.
Morningside 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: #131 of 866 in Ontario and #586 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
Ranked 4th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Morningside’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Morningside’s lies above the line.
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, Morningside’s region would be expected to reach 81.7 years; 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 0.9 km from the average home in Morningside
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Morningside’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Morningside 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.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes
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
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.
Morningside is 3rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,233 to 18,184 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Morningside ON A | 17,708 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 4 | Saint-Henri QC A | 17,309 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 5 | Malvern West ON A | 17,354 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Morningside
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morningside | 0.9 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| West Hill 2.5 km | 2.4 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Highland Creek 2.7 km | 2.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Golfdale-Cedarbrae-Woburn 2.7 km | 1.6 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Malvern East 2.7 km | 1.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Malvern West 2.8 km | 1.1 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Woburn North 2.8 km | 1.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Morningside from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Morningside itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Morningside
What is the life expectancy in Morningside?
For the health region that includes Morningside, women can expect 87.2 years and men 82.0 (2022/2024).
How is Morningside’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Morningside’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Morningside?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Morningside from a hospital?
Residents of Morningside have a clinic 1.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.7 km away, in straight lines.
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).