Health in Dutton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Dutton’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 80.6 years, 83.0 for a girl and 78.2 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Dutton’s is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Dutton is C+, #713 of 866 in Ontario and #2,103 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Dutton live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
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
Dutton 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 (49%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 59% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.6)Better than 49% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 50% 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: #713 of 866 in Ontario and #2,103 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Dutton
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Dutton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
11 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
3.3 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Dutton is on the far side.
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Dutton’s region shows under the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Dutton’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 80.6. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 8 of them above it, a median of 81.4.
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
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
38%
Mood disorder
20%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.9%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
At 38%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%.
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.
The wider area
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.
80.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
21st
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 21st of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency2.8
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability2.7
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Dutton’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 49% and 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
49%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
50%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
63%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
The region’s 50% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Ontario’s 51%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Dutton is 28th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,582 to 4,784 people, median 5.6 km.
Dutton and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. West Lorne is the closest to care, 4.7 km to Dutton’s 12 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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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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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Dutton itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Dutton
How is Dutton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Dutton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Dutton from a hospital?
Residents of Dutton have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 3.3 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Dutton?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Dutton?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.2 for men around Dutton (2022/2024).
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