Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Life expectancy around Enniskillen is 80.0 years, 1.5 less than for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%, behind the 51% for Ontario. What sets Enniskillen apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Enniskillen grades C+ for health, #727 of 866 in Ontario and #2,142 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Enniskillen
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Set against regions as deprived (2.8), Enniskillen’s region loses years: 80.0 where the trend says 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Enniskillen is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Enniskillen 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.
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: #727 of 866 in Ontario and #2,142 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.
The region lives 1.7 years less than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Enniskillen’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Enniskillen’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 80.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 81.3 years). Judged by income, around $83,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (9.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 37% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 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.
Getting to hospital from Enniskillen: 5.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Enniskillen’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Enniskillen travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. The centre of population is 2.1 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 5.6 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 24th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Enniskillen’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% 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
Mental health is no outlier: 51% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Enniskillen is 21st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,123 to 3,223 people, median 5.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 19 | Lakeshore ON B | 3,127 | 4.6 km | 53% |
| 20 | Crystallina Nera West AB B | 3,150 | 4.8 km | 51% |
| 21 | Enniskillen ON C+ | 3,174 | 5.6 km | 49% |
| 22 | Roblin MB C+ | 3,184 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 23 | Adelaide-Metcalfe ON B+ | 3,196 | 7.5 km | 52% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Enniskillen
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enniskillen | 5.6 km | 49% | 80.0 | C+ |
| Petrolia 2.1 km | 0.7 km | 49% | 80.0 | B− |
| Plympton-Wyoming 15 km | 11 km | 49% | 80.0 | C+ |
One health region covers Enniskillen and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Plympton-Wyoming live further from a hospital, at 11 km against 5.6 km in Enniskillen.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Enniskillen itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Enniskillen
What is the life expectancy in Enniskillen?
For the health region that includes Enniskillen, women can expect 82.2 years and men 77.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Enniskillen?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Enniskillen’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Enniskillen’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Enniskillen from a hospital?
A clinic is 6.0 km from the average resident of Enniskillen and a pharmacy 6.2 km, as the crow flies.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).