Health in Adelaide-Metcalfe · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Adelaide-Metcalfe’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.9 years (84.2 for women, 79.6 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Adelaide-Metcalfe’s is long: 7.5 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Adelaide-Metcalfe a grade of B+, #483 of 866 in Ontario and #1,286 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Middlesex-London Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
11%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.9
at birth, 2022/2024
women 84.2 · men 79.6
Nearest hospital
7.5 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Adelaide-Metcalfe 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.
Very good or excellent health (52%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 90% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.9)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.5 km)Better than 66% of Canadian towns
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: #483 of 866 in Ontario and #1,286 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Adelaide-Metcalfe’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Adelaide-Metcalfe belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 81.9 years, the trend 81.9. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 81.3. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $80,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 33%, the province 30%. At 24%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Getting care
From Adelaide-Metcalfe, a hospital is 7.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Adelaide-Metcalfe, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
7.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
19 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
8.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.2 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Adelaide-Metcalfe is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.5 km, while the average resident is 7.5 km away.
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.
81.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
9th
longest of 34 regions in Ontario
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
York Regional Health Unit86.3
Peel Regional Health Unit85.3
Halton Regional Health Unit84.9
City of Toronto Health Unit84.7
City of Ottawa Health Unit83.7
Waterloo Health Unit82.8
Durham Regional Health Unit82.6
Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit82.4
Middlesex-London Health Unit81.9
Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit81.8
Huron Perth Health Unit81.7
Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit81.5
Grey Bruce Health Unit81.3
Windsor-Essex County Health Unit81.3
City of Hamilton Health Unit81.2
Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit81.2
Niagara Regional Area Health Unit81.2
Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit81.0
Renfrew County and District Health Unit81.0
The Eastern Ontario Health Unit81.0
Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit80.6
Peterborough County—City Health Unit80.5
Brant County Health Unit80.4
Lambton Health Unit80.0
North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit80.0
Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit79.8
Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit79.6
Sudbury and District Health Unit79.1
Chatham-Kent Health Unit78.6
The District of Algoma Health Unit77.9
Porcupine Health Unit77.3
Timiskaming Health Unit77.0
Thunder Bay District Health Unit76.5
Northwestern Health Unit73.7
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 9th 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
Residential instability1.7
Economic dependency2.1
Ethno-cultural composition1.9
Situational vulnerability2.5
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Adelaide-Metcalfe’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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 53% and 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
Health very good or excellent
53%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
59%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 53%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Adelaide-Metcalfe is 23rd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,147 to 3,247 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.9 km.
Across a regional line, Watford has its own figures: life expectancy 80.0, against 81.9 here. Watford is the furthest from care, 16 km to Adelaide-Metcalfe’s 7.5 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Adelaide-Metcalfe itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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 Adelaide-Metcalfe
How is Adelaide-Metcalfe’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 Adelaide-Metcalfe’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Adelaide-Metcalfe from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Adelaide-Metcalfe live: 19 km to a clinic, 8.0 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Adelaide-Metcalfe?
There is no figure for Adelaide-Metcalfe alone; its health region’s is 84.2 for women and 79.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Adelaide-Metcalfe?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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