Health in Horton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Smoking runs high around Horton: 16% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). Measured from where Horton’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 6.3 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Horton a grade of C+, #761 of 866 in Ontario and #2,213 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Renfrew County and District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 27% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (3.4), Horton’s region gains years: 81.0 where the trend says 79.2. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Horton grades C+ 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 (50%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (6.3 km)Better than 69% 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: #761 of 866 in Ontario and #2,213 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.
For its deprivation
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 1.8 years ahead of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Horton’s dot is marked, above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Horton’s region sits above it: 81.0 years where a score of 3.4 predicts 79.2. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 79.1 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 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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
27%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
15%
Heavy drinking
26%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 26% 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 6.3 km from the average home in Horton
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Horton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
6.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
5.0 km
residents’ average distance
0.2 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 Horton 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
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.1
more years expected at 65
18th
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 18th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.6
Situational vulnerability3.6
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Horton’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.
Health survey
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
48%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
55%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
21%
Strong sense of belonging
74%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 55% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 21% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Horton is 24th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,497 to 3,606 people, median 3.9 km.
Shawville falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 80.7 against 81.0 here. Residents of Shawville live nearer a hospital, at 0.6 km against 6.3 km in Horton.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Horton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
Questions about health in Horton
How is Horton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Horton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Horton?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Horton from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Horton live: 5.7 km to a clinic, 5.0 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Horton?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Horton’s health region only: 83.0 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
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