Health in Lakeshore · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Lakeshore, 52% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.3 years on average: women 83.5, men 79.2, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Lakeshore, further than the usual 3.7 km. Lakeshore grades B− for health, #703 of 866 in Ontario and #2,062 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Residents of Lakeshore live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (22 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lakeshore 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 (52%)Better than 54% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.3)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (20 km)Better than 24% 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: #703 of 866 in Ontario and #2,062 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 Lakeshore: 20 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lakeshore, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
20 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.3 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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
From Lakeshore that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Lakeshore’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Lakeshore’s region, at 3.2, should live about 80.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.3. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 80.9 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 (22%) and diabetes (8.8%)
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
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.4%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 36% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 20% to 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
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.
81.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
13th
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
This region is 13th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.7
Economic dependency2.7
Ethno-cultural composition2.8
Situational vulnerability2.4
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Lakeshore’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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 52% to 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
52%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 51% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% 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.
Towns its size
Lakeshore is 40th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (39,966 to 52,642 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Lakeshore’s; read across for the hospital trip. Riverside is the closest to care, 5.1 km to Lakeshore’s 20 km.
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 Lakeshore itself is the trip to care.
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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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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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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.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Lakeshore
How far is Lakeshore from a hospital?
Residents of Lakeshore have a clinic 4.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.3 km away, in straight lines.
How is Lakeshore’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Lakeshore: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lakeshore?
There is no figure for Lakeshore alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Lakeshore?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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