Photo: DebraJNolan · CC BY-SA 4.0On health, Garden River 14 falls short of 89% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 46% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. What sets Garden River 14 apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). As a First Nations reserve, Garden River 14 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 Garden River 14. The Health grade for Garden River 14 is D.
What stands out about health in Garden River 14
Shorter lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Garden River 14 runs 3.6 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 19.5 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Garden River 14 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 15% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 5.5 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (45% as answered). Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 30% of adults, diabetes for 9.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Garden River 14 grades D 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.
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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 30th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Garden River 14 itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (30%) and diabetes (9.6%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%).
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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 45% 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 looks weaker than in the province: 48% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Garden River 14’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Garden River 14’s region, at 3.8, should live about 78.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 77.9, near enough. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 79.2 years in the middle.
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.
Getting to hospital from Garden River 14: 8.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Garden River 14, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Garden River 14 is on the far side.
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.
Health in the places around Garden River 14
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garden River 14 | 8.9 km | 46% | 77.9 | D |
| Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional 12 km | 4.4 km | 46% | 77.9 | C− |
| Sault Ste. Marie 14 km | 3.6 km | 46% | 77.9 | C− |
| Laird 18 km | 9.2 km | 46% | 77.9 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: Garden River 14 and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Sault Ste. Marie live nearer a hospital, at 3.6 km against 8.9 km in Garden River 14.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Garden River 14 shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Garden River 14
What is the life expectancy in Garden River 14?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Garden River 14’s health region only: 80.4 years for women and 75.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Garden River 14’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Garden River 14: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. 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.
How healthy is Garden River 14?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Garden River 14 from a hospital?
Residents of Garden River 14 have a clinic 0.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 10 km away, in straight lines.
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).