Health in Little Current · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Little Current: 79.1 years, 2.4 below the typical Canadian town’s region
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. For Little Current itself the measure is access: 3.5 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Little Current is C, #783 of 866 in Ontario and #2,249 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Sudbury and District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around Little Current is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A heavier load of illness
High blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.5%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Little Current 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 (51%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 18% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.1)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.5 km)Better than 78% 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: #783 of 866 in Ontario and #2,249 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
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (9.5%)
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
24%
Arthritis
28%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 0.8 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Little Current’s region comes out above 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) puts a deprivation score of 3.7 at 78.3 years of life; Little Current’s region does better, at 79.1. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 78.2. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $82,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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
Getting to hospital from Little Current: 3.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Little Current’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.5 km
residents’ average distance
0.6 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
Residents of Little Current travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Ontario is 3.3 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.5 km, while the average resident is 3.5 km away.
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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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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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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 Little Current’s own.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Little Current
What is the life expectancy in Little Current?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.0 for women, 76.3 for men around Little Current (2022/2024).
How is Little Current’s 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 Little Current’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Little Current?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Little Current from a hospital?
For everyday care, Little Current’s residents are 4.5 km from a pharmacy and 2.7 km from a clinic on average.
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