Health in Chapleau · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Chapleau: 79.1 years, 2.4 below the typical Canadian town’s region
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. Measured from where Chapleau’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.1 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Chapleau 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
The age-standardised smoking rate around Chapleau is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Chapleau takes a trip of 160 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
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 ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Chapleau sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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
Chapleau 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 (1.1 km)Better than 93% 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%)
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
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Chapleau: 1.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chapleau’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
160 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
Chapleau is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 28th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability4.7
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Chapleau’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
The region lives 0.8 years longer than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Chapleau’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Chapleau’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 79.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 78.2 years). Its towns’ household income, about $82,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 51% 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
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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 51% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
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 Chapleau’s own.
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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. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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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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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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Chapleau
How is Chapleau’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Chapleau 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 Chapleau?
Women in Chapleau’s region live to 82.0 on average and men to 76.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Chapleau from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Chapleau live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 160 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Chapleau?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0