Photo: Chris Woodrich · CC BY-SA 4.052% of adults around Walkerville rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.3 years at birth, 83.5 for women and 79.2 for men. What sets Walkerville apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Walkerville is B+, #501 of 866 in Ontario and #1,470 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Walkerville
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Walkerville: 1.4 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Walkerville’s neighbourhoods average 4.6 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Walkerville has 13 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 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.
Walkerville 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: #501 of 866 in Ontario and #1,470 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 Walkerville: 1.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Walkerville, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Walkerville is on the near side.
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.
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
This region is 13th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Walkerville’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.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.1 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Walkerville’s, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Walkerville’s region, at 3.2, outlives the trend’s 80.2 years with 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
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.
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
Asked about their mental health, 51% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Walkerville is 9th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,080 to 19,988 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Granville Entertainment District BC A+ | 19,125 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Central London ON A− | 19,363 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 7 | Laflèche QC A | 19,706 | 1.3 km | 55% |
| 8 | Midland ON A− | 19,305 | 1.4 km | 54% |
| 9 | Walkerville ON B+ | 19,541 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 10 | Bendale-Glen Andrew ON A | 19,134 | 1.5 km | 50% |
| 11 | Highland ON A− | 19,963 | 1.5 km | 52% |
| 40 | Mont-Saint-Hilaire QC A− | 19,447 | 19 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Walkerville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Walkerville | 1.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| South Central 1.8 km | 0.6 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| City Centre 1.9 km | 0.9 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| South Walkerville 2.4 km | 0.8 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| East Windsor 3.1 km | 2.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B |
| River West 3.3 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
| Remington Park 3.4 km | 1.7 km | 52% | 81.3 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Walkerville’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Walkerville itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Walkerville
How is Walkerville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Walkerville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Walkerville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Walkerville is 0.8 km from a clinic and 0.9 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Walkerville?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.2 for men around Walkerville (2022/2024).
How healthy is Walkerville?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).