Health in Loyalist · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 53% of adults in Loyalist’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 81.8 years on average: women 83.9, men 79.5, in 2022/2024. Measured from where Loyalist’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Loyalist is B, #609 of 866 in Ontario and #1,849 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Loyalist’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 13 km. 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
Loyalist 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 (53%)Better than 57% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 46% 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: #609 of 866 in Ontario and #1,849 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
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Loyalist
Straight-line distances from each part of Loyalist, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.9 km
residents’ average distance
2.3 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 Loyalist 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.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Loyalist’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Loyalist belongs to reaches 81.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 years.
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 (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
23%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.8%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
10th
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 10th 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 instability2.6
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition2.2
Situational vulnerability3.0
This is the one part of the block measured for Loyalist 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 52% and 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
52%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health trails Ontario: 49% very good or excellent to 51%, with 25% facing stressful 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, Loyalist is 38th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,361 to 20,171 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.6 km.
Same region, same survey: Loyalist’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Kingston live nearer a hospital, at 3.9 km against 13 km in Loyalist.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Loyalist alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
Questions about health in Loyalist
How is Loyalist’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Loyalist’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Loyalist from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Loyalist is 5.7 km from a clinic and 1.9 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Loyalist?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Loyalist?
Women in Loyalist’s region live to 83.9 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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