Health in Machin · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Machin trails 91% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 31 km from the average resident of Machin, and 44% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Machin is D.
Machin’s region sits 7.8 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Machin live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (24 km from its centre of population), and 44% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 4.4, the trend across regions gives 75.9 years of life; Machin’s region reaches only 73.7. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Machin 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.
Health Grade
Machin grades D 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 (44%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (73.7)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (31 km)Better than 9% 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.
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
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.
73.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
34th
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
Last of the 34 regions in Ontario: the highest figure is 86.3, 12.6 years above the lowest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.4
Economic dependency4.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
This is the one part of the block measured for Machin 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Machin: 31 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Machin, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
31 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
10 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
31 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
44%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Machin is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Machin’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 4.4 would suggest 75.9 years, but Machin’s region stops at 73.7. Each of the 10 regions scored most like it does better, with a median of 78.5. A household income of about $84,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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 (20%) and diabetes (5.8%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
20%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
5.8%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
31%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 31% 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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 43% 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
Health very good or excellent
43%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health trails Ontario: 44% very good or excellent to 51%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Machin
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Machin’s; read across for the hospital trip.
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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Machin 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.
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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.
Questions about health in Machin
What is the life expectancy in Machin?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 75.2 for women, 72.3 for men around Machin (2022/2024).
How far is Machin from a hospital?
Residents of Machin have a clinic 10 km away on average and a pharmacy 31 km away, in straight lines.
How is Machin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Machin has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Machin?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
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