Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Wainfleet’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Wainfleet’s is long: 10 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Wainfleet grades C+ for health, #768 of 866 in Ontario and #2,224 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wainfleet
Smoking runs high
Around Wainfleet, 11% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Wainfleet the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 12 km. Getting care ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 25% of adults, diabetes for 11%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Wainfleet 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: #768 of 866 in Ontario and #2,224 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.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 30%.
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.
From Wainfleet, a hospital is 10 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Wainfleet, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Wainfleet travel further 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Wainfleet’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Wainfleet’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (5 of 10), with a median of 81.4. A household income of about $80,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
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
This region is 15th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 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 Wainfleet’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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 20% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 50% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
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: Wainfleet comes 35th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,199 to 7,463 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Cathedral Village SK B+ | 7,311 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 33 | Saint-Joseph-du-Lac QC A+ | 7,391 | 6.4 km | 60% |
| 34 | Sage Creek MB B | 7,391 | 8.5 km | 52% |
| 35 | Wainfleet ON C+ | 7,329 | 10 km | 49% |
| 36 | Portage la Prairie MB C+ | 7,359 | 14 km | 51% |
| 37 | Niverville MB C+ | 7,277 | 18 km | 51% |
| 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 Wainfleet
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wainfleet | 10 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Port Colborne 14 km | 3.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Welland 14 km | 2.4 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Pelham 15 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Wainfleet’s regional figures. Welland is the closest to care, 2.4 km to Wainfleet’s 10 km.
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.
- 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.
- 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 Wainfleet’s own.
- 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.
- 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 Wainfleet
How far is Wainfleet from a hospital?
A clinic is 10 km from the average resident of Wainfleet and a pharmacy 10 km, as the crow flies.
How is Wainfleet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Wainfleet: 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 Wainfleet?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Wainfleet?
There is no figure for Wainfleet alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 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).