Health in Central Manitoulin · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Central Manitoulin’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.4 years: life expectancy 79.1
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 51% against 51%. What sets Central Manitoulin apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Central Manitoulin a grade of C.
Around Central Manitoulin, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 24% of adults, diabetes for 9.5%. 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
Central Manitoulin 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 (6.9 km)Better than 68% 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.
Conditions and habits
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.8 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Central Manitoulin’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Central Manitoulin’s region, at 3.7, should live about 78.3 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 79.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 78.2 years. Households here earn around $82,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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
Getting to hospital from Central Manitoulin: 6.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Central Manitoulin, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.8 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
Residents of Central Manitoulin 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. The centre of population is 2.5 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 6.9 km.
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.
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 28th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.3
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.1
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Central Manitoulin’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
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 51% to 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
Mental health is no outlier: 51% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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 Manitoulin’s own.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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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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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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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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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in Central Manitoulin
How is Central Manitoulin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Central Manitoulin 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 Central Manitoulin?
For the health region that includes Central Manitoulin, women can expect 82.0 years and men 76.3 (2022/2024).
How far is Central Manitoulin from a hospital?
For everyday care, Central Manitoulin’s residents are 6.8 km from a pharmacy and 7.0 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Central Manitoulin?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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