Health in Central Frontenac · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Central Frontenac live 41 km from the nearest hospital on average
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 53% against 51%. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 11 km away on average (0.1 within 3 km). The Health grade for Central Frontenac is B−, #699 of 866 in Ontario and #2,047 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Central Frontenac at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Central Frontenac 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 (53%)Better than 57% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (41 km)Better than 5% 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: #699 of 866 in Ontario and #2,047 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
10th
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 10th 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 instability2.2
Economic dependency4.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability4.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Central Frontenac’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of 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 Central Frontenac’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
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 2.8, the expected figure is 81.5 years, and Central Frontenac’s region matches it closely with 81.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.5%)
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
23%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.8%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
At 34%, 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Central Frontenac: 0.1 within 3 km, the nearest 11 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Central Frontenac, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
41 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
12 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
11 km
residents’ average distance
0.1 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
Central Frontenac is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Central Frontenac’s own.
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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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Central Frontenac
How far is Central Frontenac from a hospital?
Residents of Central Frontenac have a clinic 12 km away on average and a pharmacy 11 km away, in straight lines.
How is Central Frontenac’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Central Frontenac: 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 Central Frontenac?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Central Frontenac?
Women in Central Frontenac’s region live to 83.9 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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