Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run shorter around Kapuskasing: 77.3 years, 4.2 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kapuskasing is well placed: 1.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Kapuskasing is C, #789 of 866 in Ontario and #2,264 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kapuskasing
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Kapuskasing is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Kapuskasing’s neighbourhoods average 4.4 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Kapuskasing: 0.6 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Kapuskasing 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.
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: #789 of 866 in Ontario and #2,264 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 12%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 45% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% 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.
Getting to hospital from Kapuskasing: 1.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kapuskasing, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Kapuskasing 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 31st longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Kapuskasing’s 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.
1.3 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Kapuskasing’s region comes out above the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Kapuskasing’s region, at 4.3, should live about 76.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 77.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (6 of 10, median 78.5 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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent to 51%, with 24% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Kapuskasing is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,658 to 9,033 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corktown ON B+ | 8,952 | 0.3 km | 53% |
| 2 | Booth MB B+ | 9,016 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Innisfail AB C+ | 8,736 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 4 | Munroe East MB B+ | 8,873 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 5 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste QC A+ | 8,882 | 1.1 km | 62% |
| 6 | Kapuskasing ON C | 8,825 | 1.2 km | 48% |
| 7 | Hanover ON B− | 8,723 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 8 | DT Cooksville ON A− | 8,864 | 1.3 km | 49% |
| 40 | Grande Cache AB D− | 8,984 | 22 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Kapuskasing
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kapuskasing | 1.2 km | 48% | 77.3 | C |
| Moonbeam 18 km | 19 km | 48% | 77.3 | D |
Same region, same survey: Kapuskasing’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Moonbeam live further from a hospital, at 19 km against 1.2 km in Kapuskasing.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kapuskasing itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Kapuskasing
What is the life expectancy in Kapuskasing?
For the health region that includes Kapuskasing, women can expect 80.1 years and men 74.6 (2022/2024).
How is Kapuskasing’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Kapuskasing: 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 Kapuskasing?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Kapuskasing from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Kapuskasing is 108 km from a clinic and 1.3 km from a pharmacy.
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).