Life expectancy around Teston is 86.3 years, 4.8 more than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario’s 51%. What sets Teston apart within its region is distance, and at 3.4 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Teston is A, #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Teston
Pharmacies on every corner
With 10 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.1 km off, Teston is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Teston 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: #269 of 866 in Ontario and #821 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 Teston, a hospital is 3.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Teston, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Teston is ordinary: 3.3 km is the typical figure in Ontario, 3.7 km for 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.3 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Teston’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
At 1.9 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 85.0 years, and the region Teston belongs to reaches 86.3. It outlives 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 83.5 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (7.8%)
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, 23%, trails Ontario (30%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 9.8% 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
Top of the 34 regions in Ontario: the lowest figure is 73.7, 12.6 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Teston’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 50% 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
The region’s 53% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 25% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Teston is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,286 to 7,589 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ermineskin AB B+ | 7,483 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 19 | Brentwood AB A+ | 7,369 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 20 | Saint-Jude QC A | 7,364 | 3.0 km | 55% |
| 21 | Teston ON A | 7,437 | 3.4 km | 51% |
| 22 | Betsworth MB B+ | 7,476 | 3.4 km | 52% |
| 23 | Ranchlands AB A+ | 7,376 | 3.7 km | 56% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Teston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Teston | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Peace Village 1.7 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hope 2.1 km | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Maple 2.3 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Carrville Corners 3.3 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Purpleville 3.5 km | 4.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Upper Thornhill Estates 4.2 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Teston’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Teston’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Teston
What is the life expectancy in Teston?
Women in Teston’s region live to 87.9 on average and men to 84.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Teston’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Teston: 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 Teston?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Teston from a hospital?
For everyday care, Teston’s residents are 1.1 km from a pharmacy and 5.7 km from a clinic on average.
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).