Photo: Raquel. · CC BY 3.0Life expectancy around Vellore is 86.3 years, 4.8 more than for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. What sets Vellore apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.3 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Vellore a grade of A, #208 of 866 in Ontario and #716 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Vellore
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Vellore has 15 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Vellore 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: #208 of 866 in Ontario and #716 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.
Getting to hospital from Vellore: 2.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Vellore, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Vellore are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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 would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Vellore’s region is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 1.9 at 85.0 years of life; Vellore’s region does better, at 86.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (9 of 10, median 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
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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years ahead of the last at 73.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Vellore’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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
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.
Vellore is 17th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (36,097 to 42,989 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 15 | Marc-Aurèle-Fortin QC A | 36,220 | 2.1 km | 54% |
| 16 | Moose Jaw SK B | 36,337 | 2.3 km | 54% |
| 17 | Vellore ON A | 39,490 | 2.3 km | 51% |
| 18 | Duvernay QC A | 37,460 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 19 | Le Boisé Champêtre QC A | 37,891 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Vellore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vellore | 2.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Purpleville 2.4 km | 4.2 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Peace Village 3.5 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Maple 3.8 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Pine Grove 4.0 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 86.3 | A− |
| Vaughan Metropolitan Centre 4.2 km | 4.7 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
| Edgeley 4.6 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 86.3 | A |
Around Vellore the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Pine Grove live further from a hospital, at 5.3 km against 2.3 km in Vellore.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Vellore itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Vellore
What is the life expectancy in Vellore?
Women in Vellore’s region live to 87.9 on average and men to 84.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Vellore’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Vellore has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Vellore?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Vellore from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.0 km from the average resident of Vellore and a pharmacy 0.8 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).