Health in Hampton Heights · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Hampton Heights’ health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.5 for women, 79.0 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Hampton Heights’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.1 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Hampton Heights is B, #570 of 866 in Ontario and #1,764 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of 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
With 17 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Hampton Heights is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
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
Hampton Heights 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 (2.1 km)Better than 85% 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: #570 of 866 in Ontario and #1,764 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.
Getting care
From Hampton Heights, a hospital is 2.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Hampton Heights, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
17 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
Hampton Heights is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Hampton Heights’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Hampton Heights’ region fits it, 81.2 years at 3.0 against the line’s 81.0. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 80.9.
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
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.5%
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
Self-reported obesity, 28%, sits within a few points of Ontario (30%). Heavy drinking runs above the province, 21% to 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
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 15th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency4.2
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability3.4
This is the one part of the block measured for Hampton Heights 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.
Health survey
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Ontario (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
54%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
63%
Satisfied with life
82%
Ontario
For 27% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 52% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Hampton Heights is 13th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,434 to 3,565 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Hampton Heights’ regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Hampton Heights shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Hampton Heights
How healthy is Hampton Heights?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Hampton Heights from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Hampton Heights is 1.6 km from a clinic and 0.6 km from a pharmacy.
How is Hampton Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Hampton Heights’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Hampton Heights?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men around Hampton Heights (2022/2024).