Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Long Sault’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.0 years on average (2022/2024): 83.0 for women, 78.9 for men. Measured from where Long Sault’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 15 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Long Sault is C, #781 of 866 in Ontario and #2,246 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Long Sault
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Long Sault live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Long Sault is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Long Sault 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.
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: #781 of 866 in Ontario and #2,246 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.
From Long Sault, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Long Sault, weighted by who lives there.
Long Sault is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 39%, 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Long Sault’s region is near the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.2 about 80.3 years; Long Sault’s region’s 81.0 is within a year of it. 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 18th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Long Sault itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 48% to 51%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 27% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 53% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Ontario’s 51%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Long Sault is 38th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (14,347 to 14,870 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 36 | La Crète AB D | 14,488 | 12 km | 48% |
| 37 | South Glengarry ON C+ | 14,355 | 13 km | 49% |
| 38 | Long Sault ON C | 14,602 | 15 km | 49% |
| 39 | Mountain View County AB A | 14,802 | 15 km | 56% |
| 40 | Gravenhurst ON B | 14,576 | 16 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Long Sault
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Sault | 15 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
| Cornwall 16 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 81.0 | B− |
| Akwesasne (Part) 59 17 km | 14 km | 49% | 81.0 | C |
Only the hospital column is local here: Long Sault and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Cornwall live nearer a hospital, at 1.5 km against 15 km in Long Sault.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Long Sault itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Long Sault
How far is Long Sault from a hospital?
A clinic is 14 km from the average resident of Long Sault and a pharmacy 4.7 km, as the crow flies.
How is Long Sault’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Long Sault has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Long Sault?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Long Sault?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.9 for men around Long Sault (2022/2024).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).