Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Welland’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. What sets Welland apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Welland a grade of C+, #717 of 866 in Ontario and #2,117 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Welland
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Welland than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (11%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Welland has 13 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.
Welland 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: #717 of 866 in Ontario and #2,117 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (11%)
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 32% of adults against 30% for Ontario.
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.
The nearest hospital is 2.4 km from the average home in Welland
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Welland’s own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Welland goes.
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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Welland’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Welland’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.9 against the line’s 81.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Welland’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 48% to 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
Mental health is no outlier: 50% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 20% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Welland comes 9th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 51,346 to 85,944 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Whalley BC A | 52,642 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 7 | Woodstock ON B− | 55,572 | 2.1 km | 49% |
| 8 | Medicine Hat AB B− | 68,714 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 9 | Welland ON C+ | 66,480 | 2.4 km | 49% |
| 10 | Châteauguay QC A | 53,508 | 2.5 km | 55% |
| 11 | Brandon MB C+ | 59,444 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 40 | Keswick ON B+ | 53,630 | 17 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Welland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Welland | 2.4 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Pelham 6.6 km | 8.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Port Colborne 11 km | 3.0 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Thorold 13 km | 3.5 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Wainfleet 14 km | 10 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Niagara Falls 17 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.2 | C+ |
One health region covers Welland and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Wainfleet live further from a hospital, at 10 km against 2.4 km in Welland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Welland shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Welland
How is Welland’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Welland has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Welland?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Welland?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Welland’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Welland from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Welland is 1.4 km from a clinic and 0.8 km from a pharmacy.
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).