Photo: Jim Charlton · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Stipeley’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.5 for women, 79.0 for men. What sets Stipeley apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Stipeley is B, #518 of 866 in Ontario and #1,575 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stipeley
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Stipeley: 0.7 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.9 out of 5, Stipeley sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 34 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.4 km off, Stipeley is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Stipeley 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: #518 of 866 in Ontario and #1,575 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.
From Stipeley, a hospital is 0.8 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Stipeley, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Stipeley are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 15th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Stipeley 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Stipeley’s region is near the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.0 about 81.0 years; Stipeley’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 5, with 80.9 years in the middle.
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
At 28%, self-reported obesity is near Ontario’s 30%. At 21%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 54% to 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 reads like the rest of Ontario: 52% against 51%, and 27% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Stipeley is 3rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,462 to 6,685 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 4 | West Broadway MB B+ | 6,537 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 5 | Battlefield ON B | 6,531 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stipeley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stipeley | 0.8 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Gibson 0.7 km | 1.0 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Blakeley 0.8 km | 0.4 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Crown Point West 1.0 km | 1.3 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| St. Clair 1.2 km | 0.7 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Industrial Sector A and Keith 1.3 km | 1.5 km | 53% | 81.2 | B |
| Landsdale 1.6 km | 0.5 km | 53% | 81.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Stipeley’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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 Stipeley’s own.
Questions about health in Stipeley
How is Stipeley’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Stipeley: 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 Stipeley?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Stipeley from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.9 km from the average resident of Stipeley and a pharmacy 0.4 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Stipeley?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Stipeley’s health region only: 83.5 years for women and 79.0 for men (2022/2024).
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).