Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Forest Glade, 52% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.3 years, 83.5 for a girl and 79.2 for a boy (2022/2024). For Forest Glade itself the measure is access, and it lags: 6.2 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Forest Glade grades B for health, #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Forest Glade
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Forest Glade has 5.3 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.
Forest Glade 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: #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 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 Forest Glade: 6.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Forest Glade, weighted by who lives there.
Forest Glade is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.1 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Forest Glade’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.2 on the index, the line expects 80.2 years; Forest Glade’s region reaches 81.3. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (6 of 10), with a median of 80.9.
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 (22%) and diabetes (8.8%)
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
At 36%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (20% against 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 13th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Forest Glade’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 much as in Ontario: 52% 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 reads like the rest of Ontario: 51% against 51%, and 22% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Forest Glade is 33rd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (20,864 to 21,828 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 31 | Evanston AB A | 21,483 | 5.3 km | 56% |
| 32 | Cole Harbour NS B+ | 21,627 | 5.5 km | 51% |
| 33 | Forest Glade ON B | 21,328 | 6.2 km | 52% |
| 34 | Saddle Ridge AB A | 21,479 | 6.7 km | 56% |
| 35 | Colchester County, Subdivision B NS D | 21,578 | 7.8 km | 42% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Forest Glade
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Forest Glade | 6.2 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| East Riverside 2.9 km | 7.7 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Fontainebleau 3.2 km | 2.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Riverside 3.5 km | 5.1 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Tecumseh 3.6 km | 10 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| East Windsor 4.9 km | 2.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Devonshire 6.2 km | 3.5 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
One health region covers Forest Glade and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. East Windsor is the closest to care, 2.4 km to Forest Glade’s 6.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Forest Glade alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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 Forest Glade
How is Forest Glade’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Forest Glade’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Forest Glade from a hospital?
For everyday care, Forest Glade’s residents are 0.8 km from a pharmacy and 2.2 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Forest Glade?
There is no figure for Forest Glade alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Forest Glade?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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).