Health in Kingston · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
53% of adults around Kingston rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.8 years, 83.9 for a girl and 79.5 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.9 km from the average resident of Kingston, about the norm of 3.7 km. Kingston grades B+ for health, #487 of 866 in Ontario and #1,340 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy for the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
With 12 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.2 km off, Kingston is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Kingston grades B+ 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 (53%)Better than 57% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.9 km)Better than 76% 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: #487 of 866 in Ontario and #1,340 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Kingston: 3.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kingston’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.2 km
residents’ average distance
12 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
That is close to the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Kingston goes.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Kingston’s, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Kingston’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.8, near enough. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.2 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 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.5%
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
23%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.8%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
10th
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
The region comes 10th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition2.9
Situational vulnerability2.7
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Kingston’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
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 52% to 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
52%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 25% 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
Kingston is 22nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 102,378 to 213,592 people, median 3.8 km.
Only the hospital column is local here: Kingston and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Loyalist is the furthest from care, 13 km to Kingston’s 3.9 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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. 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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kingston itself is the trip to care.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Kingston
How is Kingston’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Kingston: 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 Kingston?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Kingston?
For the health region that includes Kingston, women can expect 83.9 years and men 79.5 (2022/2024).
How far is Kingston from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.7 km from the average resident of Kingston and a pharmacy 1.2 km, as the crow flies.
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