Retirement home · Waterloo, ON

Chartwell Clair Hills Retirement Community

530 Columbia Street West, Waterloo N2T0B1 · View location

Vitrine score

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Prices

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Photos

7 photos from the residence's website

Residence facade with balconies beside a lawn and trees.

Exterior1 / 7

Lounge with sofas, fireplace and a bar counter in the background.

Bistro counter and stools beside large windows.

Dining room with tables and wooden chairs beside large windows.

Suite living room with a sofa, armchair and coffee table.

Indoor pool with metal entry rails and poolside seating.

Craft kitchen with cupboards, an island and a long table.

Photos published by Chartwell Clair Hills Retirement Community on its website (amica.ca), retrieved 2026-10-10. These are the residence's own marketing photos and may not show current conditions. Is one of these yours? Ask us to remove it.

The area

How this location compares on access and local conditions. These are facts about the surrounding area, not a rating of the home.

Nearby

Nearest hospital: 5.6 km to Grand River Hospital - Kitchener-Waterloo

These are straight-line distances.

Area report: Air quality, summer heat, nearest major road and railway.

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Food safety inspections

Compared with homes this health unit inspects

1.9 infractions per routine inspection, on average

More infractions than most homes Region of Waterloo Public Health inspects.

Each dot is one rated retirement home in this health unit, from fewest infractions per routine inspection (left) to most (right). More infractions per routine inspection than 20 of the other 28 retirement homes Region of Waterloo Public Health inspects. Recent inspections count more.

5 routine inspections since 2024; latest August 5, 2026.

Inspection record on the Region of Waterloo Public Health portal

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Nearby residences

The Village At University Gates

250 Laurelwood Drive, Waterloo, ON

1.8 km away

Large

66.9/100Good

Ranked #330 out of 780 in Ontario

The Westhill

25 Westhill Drive, Waterloo, ON

2.2 km away

Large

Not yet scored

Beechwood Manor

305 Erb Street West, Waterloo, ON

3.3 km away

Medium

24/100Serious concerns

Ranked #682 out of 780 in Ontario

Luther Village On The Park-Sunshine Centre

141 Father David Bauer Drive, Waterloo, ON

3.7 km away

Large

74.5/100Good

Ranked #252 out of 780 in Ontario

These are straight-line distances.

Sources

Source: Ontario MOHSERLO, retrieved 2026-09-14. Licence: Open Government Licence - Ontario.

Home size: Retirement Homes Regulatory Authority public register, Number of Suites and Resident Capacity (read 2026-09-23).

Photos: the residence's own website, amica.ca, retrieved 2026-10-10. © the residence or its photographer; shown with credit and a link; removed on request.

Air quality source: Global annual mean ground-level fine particulate matter (PM2.5), 2022, satellite-derived by the Atmospheric Composition Analysis Group (van Donkelaar et al.), obtained from the World Bank Data Catalog, "Air Pollution: Satellite-derived PM2.5 Concentration" (https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0066908).

Summer heat source: Thornton, M.M., R. Shrestha, Y. Wei, P.E. Thornton, and S-C. Kao. 2020. Daymet: Daily Surface Weather Data on a 1-km Grid for North America, Version 4. ORNL DAAC, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. https://doi.org/10.3334/ORNLDAAC/1840

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: Statistics Canada, Road Network File, 2023.

Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence - Canada. Source: National Railway Network (NRWN), GeoBase Series.

Food safety inspections: Region of Waterloo Public Health, public inspection disclosure portal (retrieved 2026-09-25).