Health in Gananoque · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
The nearest hospital is 28 km from the average home in Gananoque
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. A pharmacy is nearer: 0.7 km on average, with 2.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Gananoque grades C for health, #775 of 866 in Ontario and #2,237 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
14%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.3 · men 79.2
Nearest hospital
28 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Gananoque 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 (51%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 47% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 39% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (28 km)Better than 12% 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: #775 of 866 in Ontario and #2,237 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.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Gananoque’s region comes out on 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 Gananoque’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.9, where the trend says 81.3. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (4) and half worse (4), around 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
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.6% 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
24%
Arthritis
34%
Diabetes
7.6%
Obese (self-reported)
38%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
18%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
21%
Ontario
At 38%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (21% 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Gananoque: 2.0 within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Gananoque, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
28 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
27 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 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
Residents of Gananoque 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.5
more years expected at 65
15th
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 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability4.1
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.8
Situational vulnerability3.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Gananoque’s 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
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 49% 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
49%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
On mental health the region is ahead of Ontario, 56% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% 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.
Towns its size
Gananoque is 39th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,457 to 5,678 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
One health region covers Gananoque and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Gananoque shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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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.
Questions about health in Gananoque
How far is Gananoque from a hospital?
A clinic is 27 km from the average resident of Gananoque and a pharmacy 0.7 km, as the crow flies.
How is Gananoque’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Gananoque’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Gananoque?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Gananoque?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Gananoque’s health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.2 for men (2022/2024).
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