Health in Casselman · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Casselman sits a long way from hospital care: 32 km for the average resident
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 0.6 km away on average (2.0 within 3 km). Health gives Casselman a grade of C−, #818 of 866 in Ontario and #2,340 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the The Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around Casselman is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Health Grade
Casselman 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 (49%)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 29% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (32 km)Better than 8% 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: #818 of 866 in Ontario and #2,340 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (11%)
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
29%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
At 39%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Casselman’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.2, the expected figure is 80.3 years, and Casselman’s region matches it closely with 81.0. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 81.0 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Casselman: 2.0 within 3 km, the nearest 0.6 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Casselman, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
32 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
18 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Casselman 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.
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.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
18th
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
This region is 18th 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
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency2.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.1
Situational vulnerability2.5
This is the one part of the block measured for Casselman itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 48% 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
Health very good or excellent
48%
Health fair or poor
22%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
87%
Ontario
Neither ahead nor behind Ontario on mental health (53% to 51%), the region has 27% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Casselman is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,460 to 4,615 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Casselman’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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. 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.
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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Casselman alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Casselman
How far is Casselman from a hospital?
Residents of Casselman have a clinic 18 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Casselman’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Casselman: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Casselman?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Casselman?
Women in Casselman’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 78.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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