Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Sandwich’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.3 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.2 for men. For Sandwich itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Sandwich a grade of B+, #489 of 866 in Ontario and #1,358 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sandwich
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Sandwich is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.4 km away. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.2 out of 5, Sandwich sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 6.8 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.2 km off, Sandwich is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sandwich 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: #489 of 866 in Ontario and #1,358 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.
The nearest hospital is 0.8 km from the average home in Sandwich
Straight-line distances from each part of Sandwich, weighted by who lives there.
Sandwich is closer in 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 13th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Sandwich’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
1.1 years above the line for regions this deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Sandwich’s region’s dot is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.2 at 80.2 years of life; Sandwich’s region does better, at 81.3. 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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 51% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Sandwich is 3rd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (13,826 to 14,369 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 4 | Greenwood-Coxwell ON A | 14,146 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 5 | Ville-Émard QC A | 13,826 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sandwich
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandwich | 0.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| River West 2.1 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| South Cameron 2.3 km | 1.9 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| South Central 3.4 km | 0.6 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| City Centre 3.5 km | 0.9 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| South Windsor 4.9 km | 3.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| Walkerville 4.9 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Sandwich and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. South Windsor is the furthest from care, 3.8 km to Sandwich’s 0.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sandwich itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sandwich
How is Sandwich’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 Sandwich’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sandwich from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.0 km from the average resident of Sandwich and a pharmacy 1.2 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Sandwich?
There is no figure for Sandwich alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Sandwich?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. 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).