Health in Oakes · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
53% of adults around Oakes rate 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). Measured from where Oakes’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 5.2 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Oakes grades B for health, #636 of 866 in Ontario and #1,893 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the City of Hamilton Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
With 7.9 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.3 km off, Oakes 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
Oakes 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 (5.2 km)Better than 72% 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: #636 of 866 in Ontario and #1,893 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 Oakes: 5.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Oakes, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
5.2 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.3 km
residents’ average distance
7.9 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
Oakes is further out 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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Oakes’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
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 Oakes’ region fits it, 81.2 years at 3.0 against the line’s 81.0. 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
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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. 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
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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 instability1.5
Economic dependency2.7
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability1.8
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Oakes’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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%)
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
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
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Oakes comes 18th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,979 to 4,118 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.6 km.
The neighbours all sit in Oakes’ 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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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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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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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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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Oakes alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Oakes
How is Oakes’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Oakes: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Oakes?
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 Oakes from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Oakes is 2.0 km from a clinic and 1.3 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Oakes?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men around Oakes (2022/2024).