Health in East Ferris · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Smoking runs high around East Ferris: 18% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Measured from where East Ferris’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 15 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. East Ferris grades C− for health, #844 of 866 in Ontario and #2,451 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is East Ferris’ own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around East Ferris, a child can expect 1.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.3 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 46%. Health survey ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), East Ferris’ region gains years: 80.0 where the trend says 78.2. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
East Ferris 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 (47%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (15 km)Better than 41% 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: #844 of 866 in Ontario and #2,451 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 15 km from the average home in East Ferris
Straight-line distances from each part of East Ferris, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
15 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
7.5 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
From East Ferris that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.8 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; East Ferris’ region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and East Ferris’ region sits above it: 80.0 years where a score of 3.7 predicts 78.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 78.2 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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.
80.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
24th
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
Ranked 24th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.2
Economic dependency2.9
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability3.3
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; East Ferris’ 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% 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
46%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
20%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
61%
Satisfied with life
81%
Ontario
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (49% against 51%), while 25% call most days 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 (27%) and diabetes (9.7%)
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
27%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.7%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 36%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
Towns its size
East Ferris is 37th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,726 to 5,947 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.5 km.
Only the hospital column is local here: East Ferris and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Chisholm is the furthest from care, 28 km to East Ferris’ 15 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: East Ferris 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in East Ferris
How far is East Ferris from a hospital?
For everyday care, East Ferris’ residents are 7.5 km from a pharmacy and 13 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is East Ferris?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in East Ferris?
Statistics Canada publishes it for East Ferris’ health region only: 82.6 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is East Ferris’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so East Ferris has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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