Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Vankleek Hill, 49% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.0 years (83.0 for women, 78.9 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Vankleek Hill’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 7.0 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Vankleek Hill is C+, #731 of 866 in Ontario and #2,151 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Vankleek Hill
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Vankleek Hill is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Vankleek Hill grades C+ 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: #731 of 866 in Ontario and #2,151 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (11%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 39%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% to the province’s 17%.
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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Vankleek Hill’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Vankleek Hill’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.3 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.0, near enough. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 81.0 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.
From Vankleek Hill, a hospital is 7.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Vankleek Hill, weighted by who lives there.
From Vankleek Hill that is further 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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, 18th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Vankleek Hill itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 27% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Vankleek Hill comes 29th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,157 to 9,488 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Old East York ON A | 9,175 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 27 | Three Rivers PE B | 9,322 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 28 | Riverbend AB A | 9,193 | 5.9 km | 56% |
| 29 | Vankleek Hill ON C+ | 9,321 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 30 | La Pêche QC B | 9,379 | 7.1 km | 55% |
| 31 | Fall River NS B | 9,214 | 7.3 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Vankleek Hill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vankleek Hill | 7.0 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Hawkesbury 5.9 km | 1.2 km | 49% | 81.0 | B− |
| Grenville 8.3 km | 3.3 km | 60% | 82.2 | A+ |
| Grenville-sur-la-Rouge 9.0 km | 9.1 km | 60% | 82.2 | A |
| East Hawkesbury 16 km | 13 km | 49% | 81.0 | C+ |
Across a regional line, Grenville has its own figures: life expectancy 82.2, against 81.0 here. Residents of Hawkesbury live nearer a hospital, at 1.2 km against 7.0 km in Vankleek Hill.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Vankleek Hill alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Vankleek Hill
How is Vankleek Hill’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Vankleek Hill’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Vankleek Hill?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
How far is Vankleek Hill from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Vankleek Hill live: 4.9 km to a clinic, 3.9 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Vankleek Hill?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Vankleek Hill’s health region only: 83.0 years for women and 78.9 for men (2022/2024).
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).