Health in Deseronto · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
18% of adults smoke in the health region around Deseronto, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 45% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. What sets Deseronto apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Deseronto is C−.
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Life expectancy in the region around Deseronto runs 1.7 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 6.7 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 43% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 28% of adults, diabetes for 11%. Conditions and habits ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Deseronto 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
Deseronto 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 (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.8)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (8.4 km)Better than 62% 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
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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.
79.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
26th
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
The region comes 26th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.4
Situational vulnerability5.0
This is the one part of the block measured for Deseronto itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 43% very good or excellent, against 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
43%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
81%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 27% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (28%) and diabetes (11%)
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
28%
Arthritis
33%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
21%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 39%, 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.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Deseronto’s, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.2 on the index, regions tend to reach 80.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Deseronto belongs to reaches 79.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 7 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle.
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 Deseronto: 8.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Deseronto, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
8.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.2 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 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
Deseronto is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Greater Napanee falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.8 against 79.8 here. Tyendinaga is the furthest from care, 15 km to Deseronto’s 8.4 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Deseronto shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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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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 Deseronto
How healthy is Deseronto?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
What is the life expectancy in Deseronto?
For the health region that includes Deseronto, women can expect 81.8 years and men 77.8 (2022/2024).
How is Deseronto’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Deseronto has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Deseronto from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.2 km from the average resident of Deseronto and a pharmacy 0.2 km, as the crow flies.
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