Health in Assiginack · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 79.1 years of life in the region around Assiginack, 2.4 under the typical Canadian town
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital is 19 km from the average resident of Assiginack, further than the usual 3.7 km. Assiginack grades C− for health.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the Sudbury and District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Assiginack live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (21 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Assiginack than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Long-term conditions run high
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 24% report high blood pressure and 9.5% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Assiginack sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Assiginack 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 (51%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 18% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.1)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (19 km)Better than 27% 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 19 km from the average home in Assiginack
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Assiginack’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
19 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.4 km
residents’ average distance
0.5 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
From Assiginack that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.5%)
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
24%
Arthritis
28%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 43%, the province 30%. At 25%, 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
79.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
28th
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
The region comes 28th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.1
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability4.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Assiginack’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
0.8 more years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Assiginack’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Assiginack’s region beats it: 79.1 years against the 78.3 the trend gives a score of 3.7. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 78.2. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $82,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 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
51%
Health fair or poor
17%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
64%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Assiginack
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Assiginack the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Assiginack alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Assiginack
How far is Assiginack from a hospital?
For everyday care, Assiginack’s residents are 3.4 km from a pharmacy and 3.3 km from a clinic on average.
How is Assiginack’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Assiginack has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Assiginack?
For the health region that includes Assiginack, women can expect 82.0 years and men 76.3 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Assiginack?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
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