Health in Kettle Point 44 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Kettle Point 44: 80.0 years, 1.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 49% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. What sets Kettle Point 44 apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 11 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Kettle Point 44 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Kettle Point 44 itself. The Health grade for Kettle Point 44 is C+.
Set against regions as deprived (2.8), Kettle Point 44’s region loses years: 80.0 where the trend says 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Kettle Point 44 live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Kettle Point 44 is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Kettle Point 44 at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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.
Health Grade
Kettle Point 44 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 (49%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (11 km)Better than 55% 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.
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
1.7 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Kettle Point 44’s, lies beneath the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Kettle Point 44’s region’s: 80.0 years where the line expects 81.7 at 2.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 81.3 years. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $83,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Getting care
From Kettle Point 44, a hospital is 11 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kettle Point 44, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
11 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
11 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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 Kettle Point 44 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.4%
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
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 37%, the province 30%. At 24%, 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.
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.
80.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
24th
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
Ranked 24th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Kettle Point 44’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.
Health survey
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer 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
48%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Kettle Point 44
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Same region, same survey: Kettle Point 44’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kettle Point 44 itself is the trip to care.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
Questions about health in Kettle Point 44
How is Kettle Point 44’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kettle Point 44 has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
What is the life expectancy in Kettle Point 44?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Kettle Point 44’s health region only: 82.2 years for women and 77.8 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Kettle Point 44 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Kettle Point 44’s residents are 11 km from a pharmacy and 1.7 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Kettle Point 44?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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