Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Wellesley, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 82.8, with women at 84.9 and men at 80.7. For Wellesley itself the measure is access, and it lags: 19 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Wellesley is B+, #474 of 866 in Ontario and #1,196 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wellesley
A long way to hospital
Distance is Wellesley’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 19 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Wellesley, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wellesley grades B+ 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: #474 of 866 in Ontario and #1,196 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 Wellesley: 19 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wellesley’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Wellesley 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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
Ranked 6th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Wellesley’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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Wellesley’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Wellesley belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.6 predicts: 82.8 years, the trend 82.5. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 82.5 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 (17%) and diabetes (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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 33%, the province 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.
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 55% 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
The region’s 52% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Wellesley is 39th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 12,154 to 12,678 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 37 | Rothesay NB C− | 12,626 | 13 km | 43% |
| 38 | Norwich ON C+ | 12,321 | 13 km | 49% |
| 39 | Wellesley ON B+ | 12,413 | 19 km | 53% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wellesley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellesley | 19 km | 53% | 82.8 | B+ |
| New Hamburg 15 km | 15 km | 53% | 82.8 | A− |
| Perth East 17 km | 15 km | 45% | 81.7 | B− |
| Waterloo 17 km | 4.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Elmira 18 km | 12 km | 53% | 82.8 | A− |
| Highland West 18 km | 3.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Westmount 19 km | 1.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Across a regional line, Perth East has its own figures: life expectancy 81.7, against 82.8 here. Residents of Westmount live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 19 km in Wellesley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Wellesley shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
Questions about health in Wellesley
How far is Wellesley from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Wellesley live: 11 km to a clinic, 5.9 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Wellesley?
For the health region that includes Wellesley, women can expect 84.9 years and men 80.7 (2022/2024).
How is Wellesley’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Wellesley’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Wellesley?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).