Health in Leamington · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Leamington’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.3 years (83.5 for women, 79.2 for men, 2022/2024). For Leamington itself the measure is access: 3.4 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Leamington grades B for health, #545 of 866 in Ontario and #1,689 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Leamington sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Leamington 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 (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: #545 of 866 in Ontario and #1,689 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 13th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.9
Economic dependency3.7
Ethno-cultural composition3.9
Situational vulnerability4.1
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Leamington’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.
For its deprivation
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 1.1 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Leamington’s lies above 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 3.2, the expected figure is 80.2 years, and Leamington’s region does better with 81.3. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 80.9 years in the middle.
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
At 36%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (20% 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
The nearest hospital is 3.4 km from the average home in Leamington
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Leamington’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.9 km
residents’ average distance
1.5 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 Leamington goes.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Leamington’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Kingsville live further from a hospital, at 10 km against 3.4 km in Leamington.
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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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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Leamington itself is the trip to care.
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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.
Questions about health in Leamington
How is Leamington’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Leamington’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Leamington?
For the health region that includes Leamington, women can expect 83.5 years and men 79.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Leamington?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Leamington from a hospital?
Residents of Leamington have a clinic 2.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 2.9 km away, in straight lines.
Photo: Adam Bishop · CC BY-SA 4.0