Photo: P199 · CC BY 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Wendover’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 81.0 years on average: women 83.0, men 78.9, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 15 km from the average resident of Wendover, further than the usual 3.7 km. Wendover grades C for health, #783 of 866 in Ontario and #2,249 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wendover
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Wendover the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Wendover than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. 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.
Wendover 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: #783 of 866 in Ontario and #2,249 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 Wendover: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wendover’s own, not the region’s.
From Wendover that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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 runs higher than in the province, at 39% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 22% to 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 about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Wendover’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Wendover’s region fits it, 81.0 years at 3.2 against the line’s 80.3. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 81.0.
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 18th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Wendover’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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 reads like the rest of Ontario: 53% against 51%, and 27% under quite a bit of stress most days.
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: Wendover comes 36th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 10,666 to 11,111 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weston-Pelham Park ON A | 10,680 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Bendale South ON A | 10,885 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 3 | Vieux Greenfield Park QC A | 10,998 | 1.1 km | 55% |
| 34 | Liverpool NS D | 10,997 | 13 km | 44% |
| 35 | Lacombe County AB C | 11,072 | 15 km | 52% |
| 36 | Wendover ON C | 10,896 | 15 km | 49% |
| 37 | Morinville AB B− | 10,763 | 16 km | 51% |
| 38 | Shelburne ON B− | 10,767 | 21 km | 51% |
| 40 | Yellowhead County AB D− | 10,966 | 27 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wendover
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wendover | 15 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Papineauville 8.5 km | 4.7 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
| Plaisance 12 km | 9.8 km | 55% | 80.7 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Papineauville’s life expectancy is 80.7, this region’s 81.0. Papineauville is the closest to care, 4.7 km to Wendover’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Wendover alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wendover
How far is Wendover from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Wendover is 6.9 km from a clinic and 2.9 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Wendover?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Wendover?
There is no figure for Wendover alone; its health region’s is 83.0 for women and 78.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Wendover’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Wendover’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).