Photo: JFVoll · CC BY-SA 4.052% of adults around Riverside rate 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). Closer to home, a hospital is 5.1 km from the average resident of Riverside, further than the usual 3.7 km. Riverside grades B for health, #573 of 866 in Ontario and #1,780 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Riverside
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Riverside has 6.5 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Riverside 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: #573 of 866 in Ontario and #1,780 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.
From Riverside, a hospital is 5.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Riverside, weighted by who lives there.
From Riverside 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.
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; Riverside’s dot is marked, above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Riverside’s region beats it: 81.3 years against the 80.2 the trend gives a score of 3.2. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 80.9 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Self-reported obesity, 36%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 20% to the province’s 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 across the 34 health 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
Ranked 13th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Riverside itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding 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
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (51% to 51%), the region has 22% of adults stressed 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: Riverside comes 31st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (21,386 to 22,329 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 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% |
| 29 | Kingsview Village-The Westway ON A | 22,026 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 30 | Berczy Village ON A | 22,149 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 31 | Riverside ON B | 21,828 | 5.1 km | 52% |
| 32 | Evanston AB A | 21,483 | 5.3 km | 56% |
| 33 | Cole Harbour NS B+ | 21,627 | 5.5 km | 51% |
| 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 Riverside
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside | 5.1 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| East Windsor 2.6 km | 2.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| East Riverside 3.1 km | 7.7 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Fontainebleau 3.2 km | 2.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Forest Glade 3.5 km | 6.2 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| South Walkerville 5.5 km | 0.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| Walkerville 5.7 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
Riverside and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of South Walkerville live nearer a hospital, at 0.8 km against 5.1 km in Riverside.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Riverside shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Riverside
How far is Riverside from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Riverside live: 1.9 km to a clinic, 0.7 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Riverside?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Riverside’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.2 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Riverside?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Riverside’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Riverside has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance 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).