Health in Lindsay · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Lindsay: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 49% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Lindsay’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Lindsay is C, #779 of 866 in Ontario and #2,244 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Lindsay live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (6.9 km from its centre of population), and 2% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
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
Lindsay 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 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 48% 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: #779 of 866 in Ontario and #2,244 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 Lindsay: 13 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lindsay, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.8 km
residents’ average distance
2.7 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
2%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Lindsay 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Lindsay’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.6 years; Lindsay’s region’s 81.0 is within a year of it. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 6 of them above it, a median of 81.2.
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 (28%) and diabetes (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
28%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
8%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
16%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 40%, the province 30%. At 22%, 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.
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.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.6
more years expected at 65
18th
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, 18th 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 instability2.4
Economic dependency4.2
Ethno-cultural composition2.2
Situational vulnerability3.0
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Lindsay’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 trails Ontario: 47% very good or excellent, against 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
47%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
66%
Satisfied with life
83%
Ontario
Mental health reads like the rest of Ontario: 49% against 51%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Lindsay is 40th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (66,480 to 113,671 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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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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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lindsay itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Lindsay
How is Lindsay’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lindsay’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Lindsay from a hospital?
A clinic is 9.3 km from the average resident of Lindsay and a pharmacy 4.8 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Lindsay?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Lindsay?
For the health region that includes Lindsay, women can expect 83.0 years and men 79.0 (2022/2024).
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