Health in Jerome · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Jerome, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.5 for women, 79.0 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 2.9 km from the average resident of Jerome, about the norm of 3.7 km. Jerome grades B for health, #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
A typical home in Jerome has 19 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Jerome 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 (2.9 km)Better than 80% 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: #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 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
Getting to hospital from Jerome: 2.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Jerome, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
19 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
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Jerome sits near the middle.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Jerome’s lies near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.0 would be expected to reach 81.0 years, and Jerome’s region is close, at 81.2. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 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
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (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
At 28%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 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
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 instability1.5
Economic dependency2.2
Ethno-cultural composition4.7
Situational vulnerability3.7
This is the one part of the block measured for Jerome 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
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 54% 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
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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 52% very good or excellent against 51% for Ontario; stress is a daily matter for 27%.
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, Jerome is 14th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,779 to 2,861 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.5 km.
The neighbours all sit in Jerome’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Jerome’s own.
Questions about health in Jerome
How is Jerome’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Jerome’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Jerome?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Jerome?
For the health region that includes Jerome, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Jerome from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Jerome live: 0.9 km to a clinic, 0.5 km to a pharmacy.