Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Around Lakeshore, 53% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men. For Lakeshore itself the measure is access: 4.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Lakeshore a grade of B, #623 of 866 in Ontario and #1,872 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lakeshore
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Lakeshore can reach 7.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 2.2 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lakeshore 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.
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: #623 of 866 in Ontario and #1,872 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 to hospital from Lakeshore: 4.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lakeshore’s own, not the region’s.
Lakeshore is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Lakeshore’s lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Lakeshore’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 3.0, where the trend says 81.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (5 of 10), with 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.5%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
About as many adults report obesity as across Ontario: 28%, the province 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Lakeshore’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 54% very good or excellent, against 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 52% say very good or excellent (Ontario: 51%) and 27% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Lakeshore is 16th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,075 to 3,178 people, median 7.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Ainslie Wood East ON B | 3,112 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | La Loche SK | 3,124 | 1.0 km | – |
| 14 | Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré QC A+ | 3,173 | 3.6 km | 62% |
| 15 | Valhalla MB B+ | 3,153 | 4.4 km | 52% |
| 16 | Lakeshore ON B | 3,127 | 4.6 km | 53% |
| 17 | Crystallina Nera West AB B | 3,150 | 4.8 km | 51% |
| 18 | Enniskillen ON C+ | 3,174 | 5.6 km | 49% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lakeshore
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore | 4.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Eastdale 1.6 km | 3.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Poplar Park 1.7 km | 3.9 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Guernsey 1.8 km | 4.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Riverdale East 2.1 km | 2.5 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Westmeria 2.4 km | 5.6 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Highway Valley 2.9 km | 4.2 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
Around Lakeshore the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Lakeshore’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Lakeshore
How is Lakeshore’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Lakeshore’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Lakeshore?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Lakeshore?
There is no figure for Lakeshore alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Lakeshore from a hospital?
For everyday care, Lakeshore’s residents are 2.2 km from a pharmacy and 5.6 km from a clinic on average.
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).