Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Kenora’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 7.8 years: life expectancy 73.7
Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. For Kenora itself the measure is access: 3.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Kenora is C, #808 of 866 in Ontario and #2,309 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kenora
Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts
At 73.7 years, Kenora’s region trails the 75.9 that regions scoring 4.4 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Kenora than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 7.2 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 43%. Health survey ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Kenora at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kenora 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: #808 of 866 in Ontario and #2,309 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 2.2 years short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Kenora’s dot is marked, under the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 4.4, Kenora’s region’s 73.7 years sit under the line’s 75.9. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 78.5 years. Judged by income, around $84,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 5.8% diabetes
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (31% against 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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 43% 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
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 44% very good or excellent to 51%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the shortest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years behind the first at 86.3.
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; Kenora’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.
From Kenora, a hospital is 3.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kenora, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Kenora here: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.5 km, while the average resident is 3.6 km away.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Kenora is 23rd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (15,508 to 16,296 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Trinity-Bellwoods ON A | 15,691 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | Saint-Sauveur QC A+ | 16,104 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 21 | Cliffcrest ON A | 16,184 | 2.5 km | 50% |
| 22 | Jésuites QC A+ | 15,792 | 2.9 km | 62% |
| 23 | Kenora ON C | 15,892 | 3.6 km | 44% |
| 24 | Mercier QC A | 16,036 | 3.7 km | 55% |
| 25 | South Windsor ON B | 15,896 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kenora shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Kenora
What is the life expectancy in Kenora?
Women in Kenora’s region live to 75.2 on average and men to 72.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Kenora?
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 16% of adults.
How is Kenora’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kenora has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Kenora from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.9 km from the average resident of Kenora and a pharmacy 3.3 km, as the crow flies.
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).