Health in Kincardine · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Kincardine’s health region counts 17% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.4 km from the average resident of Kincardine, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Kincardine a grade of C+, #708 of 866 in Ontario and #2,094 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Grey Bruce Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
17%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.3
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.6 · men 78.9
Nearest hospital
3.4 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Kincardine 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 (48%)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 54% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.3)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.4 km)Better than 79% 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: #708 of 866 in Ontario and #2,094 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
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Kincardine’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Kincardine’s region matches it closely with 81.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (6 of 10, median 81.1 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
In the region, high blood pressure (25%) and diabetes (9%)
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
25%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
23%
Ontario
At 37%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% 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.
Getting care
From Kincardine, a hospital is 3.4 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kincardine’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.5 km
residents’ average distance
1.9 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 Kincardine travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
One health region covers Kincardine and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Huron-Kinloss live further from a hospital, at 14 km against 3.4 km in Kincardine.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kincardine shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Kincardine
How is Kincardine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Kincardine’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Kincardine?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Kincardine?
Women in Kincardine’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Kincardine from a hospital?
For everyday care, Kincardine’s residents are 4.5 km from a pharmacy and 5.3 km from a clinic on average.
Photo: Kevin M Klerks from Inverhuron, Canada · CC BY 2.0