Health in Fort William 52 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Fort William 52: 76.5 years, 5.0 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%, behind the 51% for Ontario. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Fort William 52’s is long: 6.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. As a First Nations reserve, Fort William 52 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Fort William 52. The Health grade for Fort William 52 is C−.
Smoking is commoner around Fort William 52 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
For a deprivation score of 3.8, the trend across regions gives 78.0 years of life; Fort William 52’s region reaches only 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Fort William 52’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. 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
Fort William 52 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 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 39% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.5)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (6.9 km)Better than 68% 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (8.8%)
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
At 41%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 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
Behind regions as deprived by 1.5 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Fort William 52’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Fort William 52’s region, at 3.8, should live about 78.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 76.5. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 79.2 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
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
76.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
33rd
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 33rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Fort William 52’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 6.9 km from the average home in Fort William 52
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fort William 52’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.1 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Fort William 52 is on the far side.
Every place around Fort William 52 shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Oliver Paipoonge live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 6.9 km in Fort William 52.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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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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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fort William 52 shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Fort William 52
What is the life expectancy in Fort William 52?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Fort William 52’s health region only: 79.0 years for women and 74.1 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Fort William 52?
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%.
How far is Fort William 52 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Fort William 52’s residents are 6.1 km from a pharmacy and 2.7 km from a clinic on average.
How is Fort William 52’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Fort William 52’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
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