Life expectancy around Emo is 73.7 years, 7.8 less than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 44% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.1 km from the average resident of Emo, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Emo a grade of C.
Set against regions as deprived (4.4), Emo’s region loses years: 73.7 where the trend says 75.9. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Emo than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 7.2 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (43% as answered). Health survey ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Emo takes a trip of 31 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Emo 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 (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 (4.1 km)Better than 76% 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.
For its deprivation
Behind regions as deprived by 2.2 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Emo’s region comes out below the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 4.4 about 75.9 years of life. Emo’s region falls short of it, at 73.7. It sits at the foot of the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 78.5 years. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $84,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 5.8% diabetes
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
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 43%, the province 30%. At 31%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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
43% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
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
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 44% very good or excellent to 51%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting care
From Emo, a hospital is 4.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Emo’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
4.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
11 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
31 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
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Emo sits near the middle. The centre of population is 1.2 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 4.1 km.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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 instability3.0
Economic dependency2.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability3.6
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Emo’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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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.
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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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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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 Emo’s own.
Questions about health in Emo
What is the life expectancy in Emo?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Emo’s health region only: 75.2 years for women and 72.3 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Emo?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Emo’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Emo’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Emo from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Emo is 11 km from a clinic and 31 km from a pharmacy.
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