Health in Frontenac Islands · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
53% of adults around Frontenac Islands rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.8 years on average: women 83.9, men 79.5, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Frontenac Islands’ is long: 12 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Frontenac Islands is B.
Ontario: 51% · Very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy for the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Frontenac Islands’ own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Frontenac Islands grades B 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 (53%)Better than 57% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% 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.
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
From Frontenac Islands, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Frontenac Islands’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
12 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
10 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
Frontenac Islands is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Frontenac Islands’ region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Frontenac Islands’ region is a typical case: 81.8 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.5. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 81.2.
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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.5% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.8%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
At 34%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
10th
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 region is 10th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.7
Economic dependency4.8
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.6
The index is context and never graded: it describes Frontenac Islands’ 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 52% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Frontenac Islands
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Frontenac Islands and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Kingston is the closest to care, 3.9 km to Frontenac Islands’ 12 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Frontenac Islands alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
Questions about health in Frontenac Islands
How far is Frontenac Islands from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Frontenac Islands is 12 km from a clinic and 10 km from a pharmacy.
How is Frontenac Islands’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Frontenac Islands has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Frontenac Islands?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Frontenac Islands?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Frontenac Islands’ health region only: 83.9 years for women and 79.5 for men (2022/2024).
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