Health in Felker · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Felker’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.5 for women, 79.0 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Felker apart within its region is distance, and at 3.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Felker is B, #606 of 866 in Ontario and #1,845 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the City of Hamilton Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
13%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.5 · men 79.0
Nearest hospital
3.6 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Felker 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 58% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.6 km)Better than 77% 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: #606 of 866 in Ontario and #1,845 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
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Felker’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Felker belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.0 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (5 of 10, median 80.9 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.
Conditions and habits
22% 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
22%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
28%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
9.4%
Heavy drinking
21%
Ontario
At 28%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 30%. At 21%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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
Getting to hospital from Felker: 3.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Felker’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.4 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
Nothing unusual for Felker here: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Felker’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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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.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Felker alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Felker
How is Felker’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Felker’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Felker?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Felker?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men around Felker (2022/2024).
How far is Felker from a hospital?
For everyday care, Felker’s residents are 1.4 km from a pharmacy and 1.6 km from a clinic on average.