Health in Laird · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Laird trails 89% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 46% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital is 9.2 km from the average resident of Laird, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Laird a grade of D.
Born around Laird, a child can expect 3.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Laird than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 15% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Laird takes a trip of 21 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.5 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 45%. Health survey ↓
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
Laird grades D 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 (46%)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.9)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (9.2 km)Better than 59% 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.
The wider area
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.
77.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.5
more years expected at 65
30th
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 30th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.6
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.4
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Laird’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (30%) and diabetes (9.6%)
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
30%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.6%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
15%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%).
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 Laird, a hospital is 9.2 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Laird, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
9.2 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
21 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
Laird is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 45% 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
45%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
88%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 48% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Laird’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Laird’s region, at 3.8, should live about 78.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 77.9, near enough. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 79.2 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Laird
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen AdditionalSt. JosephGarden River 14Laird
Nothing in the regional columns separates Laird from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of St. Joseph live nearer a hospital, at 3.5 km against 9.2 km in Laird.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Laird alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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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.
Questions about health in Laird
What is the life expectancy in Laird?
There is no figure for Laird alone; its health region’s is 80.4 for women and 75.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Laird’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Laird: 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 Laird?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How far is Laird from a hospital?
A clinic is 13 km from the average resident of Laird and a pharmacy 21 km, as the crow flies.
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