Health in Armstrong · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Armstrong’s health region live to 77.0 on average, 4.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 51% for Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Armstrong, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Armstrong a grade of C.
Residents of Armstrong live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Around Armstrong, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Armstrong’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Armstrong grades C 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 (54%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 30% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 31% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.0)Better than 7% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (14 km)Better than 45% 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.
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 care
The nearest hospital is 14 km from the average home in Armstrong
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Armstrong’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
14 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
14 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
14 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Residents of Armstrong travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
High blood pressure for 26% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
26%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
45%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 45%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
77.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.3
more years expected at 65
32nd
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
Ranked 32nd 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
Residential instability3.6
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability4.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Armstrong’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Armstrong’s, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Armstrong’s region, at 4.2, should live about 76.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 77.0, near enough. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.5 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.
Health survey
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
26%
Strong sense of belonging
74%
Satisfied with life
88%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 26% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Armstrong
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Armstrong and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Englehart live nearer a hospital, at 0.5 km against 14 km in Armstrong.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Armstrong alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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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.
Questions about health in Armstrong
What is the life expectancy in Armstrong?
For the health region that includes Armstrong, women can expect 80.3 years and men 73.6 (2022/2024).
How is Armstrong’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Armstrong has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Armstrong from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Armstrong is 14 km from a clinic and 14 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Armstrong?
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 19% of adults.
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