Health in Lambeth · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Lambeth’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.9 years on average (2022/2024): 84.2 for women, 79.6 for men. What sets Lambeth apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 7.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Lambeth a grade of B+, #482 of 866 in Ontario and #1,271 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the Middlesex-London Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Lambeth at 1.5 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lambeth 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 55% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (11%)Better than 90% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.9)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.1 km)Better than 67% 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: #482 of 866 in Ontario and #1,271 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.
81.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
9th
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
The region comes 9th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.5
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition2.1
Situational vulnerability1.5
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Lambeth’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
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 Lambeth’s 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)
Use the deprivation index alone and Lambeth’s region, at 2.7, should live about 81.9 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.9, near enough. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 81.3 years. Modest pay, about $80,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (0.14).
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 (23%) and diabetes (7.4%)
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
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 7.1 km from the average home in Lambeth
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lambeth’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
7.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
6.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
1.2 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 Lambeth that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Lambeth’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Highland live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 7.1 km in Lambeth.
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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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Lambeth alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Lambeth
How far is Lambeth from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Lambeth is 6.8 km from a clinic and 0.9 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Lambeth?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lambeth’s health region only: 84.2 years for women and 79.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Lambeth’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Lambeth has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lambeth?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.