Health in Lucan · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Lucan’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 81.9 years on average: women 84.2, men 79.6, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Lucan, further than the usual 3.7 km. Lucan grades B for health, #601 of 866 in Ontario and #1,834 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Middlesex-London Health Unit
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Lucan’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 19 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lucan 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 (17 km)Better than 33% 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: #601 of 866 in Ontario and #1,834 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 17 km from the average home in Lucan
Straight-line distances from each part of Lucan, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
17 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
12 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.5 km
residents’ average distance
0.8 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Lucan is on the far side.
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Lucan’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 81.9 years, and Lucan’s region matches it closely with 81.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 81.3. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $80,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 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.
81.9
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
This region is 9th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency1.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability1.9
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lucan’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Ontario: 53% to 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
53%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
59%
Satisfied with life
84%
Ontario
Mental health is close to the province’s: 53% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
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, Lucan is 35th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,671 to 6,996 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Exeter’s life expectancy is 81.7, this region’s 81.9. Uplands is the closest to care, 2.9 km to Lucan’s 17 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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. 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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lucan itself is the trip to care.
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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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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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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.
Questions about health in Lucan
How is Lucan’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Lucan: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Lucan from a hospital?
A clinic is 12 km from the average resident of Lucan and a pharmacy 2.5 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Lucan?
Women in Lucan’s region live to 84.2 on average and men to 79.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Lucan?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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