Photo: Mathew Ingram · CC BY 2.0Maple’s region outlives the typical Canadian town by 4.8 years: life expectancy 86.3
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Maple apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Maple a grade of A, #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Maple
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Maple has 16 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.
Maple 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.
From Maple, a hospital is 2.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Maple’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Maple is on the near side.
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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.3 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Maple’s dot is marked, above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Maple’s region beats it: 86.3 years against the 85.0 the trend gives a score of 1.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 9, with 83.5 years in the middle.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (7.8%)
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%. Heavy drinking is rarer (9.8% against 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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
No region of the 34 in Ontario lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 73.7, a gap of 12.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Maple’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (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
Stress touches 25% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 53%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Maple is 18th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,647 to 20,601 people, median 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 16 | Stony Plain AB B+ | 19,662 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 17 | Overbrook ON A+ | 19,953 | 1.9 km | 56% |
| 18 | Maple ON A | 20,122 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 19 | Yonge-Doris ON A | 20,298 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 20 | Cranston AB A+ | 20,055 | 2.1 km | 56% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Maple
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 | 2.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Carrville Corners 2.0 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Teston 2.3 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Peace Village 2.4 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Dufferin Hill 2.9 km | 3.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Purpleville 3.6 km | 4.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Vellore 3.8 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Maple and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Maple alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Maple
What is the life expectancy in Maple?
There is no figure for Maple alone; its health region’s is 87.9 for women and 84.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Maple’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Maple: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Maple?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How far is Maple from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.6 km from the average resident of Maple and a pharmacy 0.7 km, as the crow flies.
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).