Photo: Andrepoiy · CC BY-SA 4.0Life expectancy around Upper Thornhill Estates 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%. Measured from where Upper Thornhill Estates’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.0 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Upper Thornhill Estates a grade of A, #191 of 866 in Ontario and #689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Upper Thornhill Estates
Easier circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.0 out of 5, Upper Thornhill Estates sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 7.9 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.3 km off, Upper Thornhill Estates is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Upper Thornhill Estates 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 Upper Thornhill Estates, a hospital is 2.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Upper Thornhill Estates, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Upper Thornhill Estates 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Upper Thornhill Estates’ 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.3 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Upper Thornhill Estates’, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Upper Thornhill Estates’ region, at 1.9, outlives the trend’s 85.0 years with 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.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Ontario: 23%, the province 30%. At 9.8%, heavy drinking trails the provincial 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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (53% to 51%), the region has 25% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Upper Thornhill Estates is 13th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (10,196 to 10,670 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Sacrement QC A+ | 10,650 | 0.4 km | 62% |
| 2 | South Central ON B+ | 10,392 | 0.6 km | 52% |
| 3 | City Centre ON B+ | 10,269 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 11 | New Glasgow NS C− | 10,378 | 2.0 km | 42% |
| 12 | Vanier North ON A+ | 10,498 | 2.0 km | 56% |
| 13 | Upper Thornhill Estates ON A | 10,435 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 14 | Rosemont/Mount Royal SK B+ | 10,497 | 2.0 km | 49% |
| 15 | Quesnel BC C | 10,253 | 2.1 km | 39% |
| 40 | Greely ON A− | 10,359 | 17 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Upper Thornhill Estates
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Thornhill Estates | 2.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| The Valleys of Thornhill 2.1 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Hope 2.9 km | 4.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Carrville Corners 2.9 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Richmond Hill 3.5 km | 4.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Thornhill Woods 4.0 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Dufferin Hill 4.1 km | 3.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Around Upper Thornhill Estates the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Upper Thornhill Estates alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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 Upper Thornhill Estates
What is the life expectancy in Upper Thornhill Estates?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 87.9 for women, 84.6 for men around Upper Thornhill Estates (2022/2024).
How is Upper Thornhill Estates’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Upper Thornhill Estates’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Upper Thornhill Estates?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Upper Thornhill Estates from a hospital?
For everyday care, Upper Thornhill Estates’ residents are 1.3 km from a pharmacy and 2.0 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).