Health in LaSalle · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
52% of adults around LaSalle rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.3 years, 83.5 for a girl and 79.2 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and LaSalle’s is long: 6.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for LaSalle is B, #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.3
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.5 · men 79.2
Nearest hospital
6.2 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
LaSalle 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 (6.2 km)Better than 70% 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: #590 of 866 in Ontario and #1,820 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
1.1 more years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for LaSalle’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.2 on the index, the line expects 80.2 years; LaSalle’s region reaches 81.3. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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%)
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
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 36%, the province 30%. At 20%, 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 6.2 km from the average home in LaSalle
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is LaSalle’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
6.2 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
6.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.0 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 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 LaSalle that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Around LaSalle the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Sandwich live nearer a hospital, at 0.8 km against 6.2 km in LaSalle.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to LaSalle alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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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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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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in LaSalle
How is LaSalle’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus LaSalle’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is LaSalle from a hospital?
Residents of LaSalle have a clinic 6.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.0 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in LaSalle?
There is no figure for LaSalle alone; its health region’s is 83.5 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is LaSalle?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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