Health in Marritt · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Marritt’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.5 and men 79.0 (2022/2024). Measured from where Marritt’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 6.0 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Marritt grades B for health, #640 of 866 in Ontario and #1,900 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Marritt’s neighbourhoods average 1.0 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 7.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 2.1 km off, Marritt is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Marritt 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 (6.0 km)Better than 70% 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: #640 of 866 in Ontario and #1,900 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 Marritt: 6.0 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Marritt, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
6.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.4 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.1 km
residents’ average distance
7.0 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
Residents of Marritt travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
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
Ranked 15th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency2.2
Ethno-cultural composition4.7
Situational vulnerability1.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Marritt’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Marritt’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Marritt’s region, at 3.0, should live about 81.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 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%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 28% of adults against 30% for Ontario. More adults drink heavily, 21% to the province’s 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.
Health survey
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Ontario (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
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
Stress touches 27% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 52%, the province 51% (Ontario).
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, Marritt is 19th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,724 to 2,796 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.5 km.
Only the hospital column is local here: Marritt and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Marritt alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Marritt
How is Marritt’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Marritt’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Marritt?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Marritt from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.4 km from the average resident of Marritt and a pharmacy 2.1 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Marritt?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Marritt’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.0 for men (2022/2024).