Health in Limoges · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Limoges live 27 km from the nearest hospital on average
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Ontario, 49% against 51%. A pharmacy is nearer: 4.2 km on average, with 0.5 within 3 km of the typical home. The Health grade for Limoges is C, #815 of 866 in Ontario and #2,332 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the The Eastern Ontario Health Unit
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around Limoges is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
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
Limoges grades C 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 (49%)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 29% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (27 km)Better than 13% 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: #815 of 866 in Ontario and #2,332 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
23%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
At 39%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of 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 Limoges’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Limoges’ region is a typical case: 81.0 years at a score of 3.2, where the trend says 80.3. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 81.0.
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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Limoges: 0.5 within 3 km, the nearest 4.2 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Limoges’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
27 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
20 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.2 km
residents’ average distance
0.5 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
19%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Limoges travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Vars falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 83.7 against 81.0 here.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Limoges’ own.
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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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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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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Limoges
How far is Limoges from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Limoges live: 20 km to a clinic, 4.2 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Limoges?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Limoges?
There is no figure for Limoges alone; its health region’s is 83.0 for women and 78.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Limoges’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Limoges’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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