Photo: Chicken4War · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Roncesvalles for health: it beats 91% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. For Roncesvalles itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Roncesvalles a grade of A, #121 of 866 in Ontario and #569 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Roncesvalles
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Roncesvalles 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; Roncesvalles’ region, at 84.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Roncesvalles: 0.9 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Roncesvalles has 58 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.3 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Roncesvalles 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: #121 of 866 in Ontario and #569 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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 Roncesvalles’ 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.
3.0 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Roncesvalles’ region comes out above the trend.
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, Roncesvalles’ 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 Roncesvalles: 0.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Roncesvalles’ own, not the region’s.
From Roncesvalles 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%
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
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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (50% to 51%), the region has 22% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Roncesvalles comes 3rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,477 to 14,961 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 4 | South London ON A− | 14,684 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 5 | Carleton Place ON B | 14,837 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Gravenhurst ON B | 14,576 | 16 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Roncesvalles
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roncesvalles | 0.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Little Portugal 1.2 km | 0.8 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Dufferin Grove 1.2 km | 1.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| South Parkdale 1.3 km | 0.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Junction-Wallace Emerson 2.0 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| Trinity-Bellwoods 2.1 km | 0.5 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
| High Park North 2.1 km | 0.7 km | 50% | 84.7 | A |
The neighbours all sit in Roncesvalles’ health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Roncesvalles’ own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Roncesvalles
What is the life expectancy in Roncesvalles?
Women in Roncesvalles’ region live to 87.2 on average and men to 82.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Roncesvalles?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Roncesvalles from a hospital?
For everyday care, Roncesvalles’ residents are 0.3 km from a pharmacy and 0.6 km from a clinic on average.
How is Roncesvalles’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Roncesvalles: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).