Health in Deer Lake · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Deer Lake trails 93% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 44%, behind the 51% for Ontario. What sets Deer Lake apart within its region is distance: 104 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. As a First Nations reserve, Deer Lake can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Deer Lake itself. The Health grade for Deer Lake is D.
Deer Lake’s region sits 7.8 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Deer Lake’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 104 km. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
At 73.7 years, Deer Lake’s region trails the 75.9 that regions scoring 4.4 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Deer Lake than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Deer Lake grades D 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 (44%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (73.7)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (104 km)Better than 1% 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.
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.
73.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
34th
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 is the shortest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years behind the first at 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.0
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Deer Lake’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.
Getting care
From Deer Lake, a hospital is 104 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Deer Lake, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
104 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
177 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
180 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Deer Lake is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 2.2 years short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Deer Lake’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 4.4 on the index, regions tend to reach 75.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Deer Lake belongs to trails at 73.7. It sits at the foot of the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 78.5 years. A household income of about $84,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (5.8%)
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
20%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
5.8%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
31%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 31% 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 43% very good or excellent, against 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
43%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 44% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
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. Only the distances on this page belong to Deer Lake alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Deer Lake
What is the life expectancy in Deer Lake?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 75.2 for women, 72.3 for men around Deer Lake (2022/2024).
How far is Deer Lake from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Deer Lake is 177 km from a clinic and 180 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Deer Lake?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How is Deer Lake’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Deer Lake’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.