Health in Clinton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Fewer adults feel healthy around Clinton: 45% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.7, with women at 83.7 and men at 79.7. Closer to home, a hospital is 5.3 km from the average resident of Clinton, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Clinton a grade of B, #619 of 866 in Ontario and #1,866 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Huron Perth Health Unit
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.7
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.7 · men 79.7
Nearest hospital
5.3 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Clinton 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 (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 66% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (5.3 km)Better than 72% 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: #619 of 866 in Ontario and #1,866 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.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Clinton’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Clinton’s region is a typical case: 81.7 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.4. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 8 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 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
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.1% diabetes
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
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
7.1%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
At 40%, 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Clinton: 5.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Clinton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
5.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.2 km
residents’ average distance
0.9 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 Clinton that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Clinton and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Goderich is the closest to care, 1.5 km to Clinton’s 5.3 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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 Clinton’s own.
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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.
Questions about health in Clinton
How is Clinton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Clinton: 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 Clinton?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is Clinton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Clinton’s residents are 4.2 km from a pharmacy and 5.1 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Clinton?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Clinton’s health region only: 83.7 years for women and 79.7 for men (2022/2024).
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