Health in Madoc · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Madoc trails 91% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 45%, behind the 51% for Ontario. For Madoc itself the measure is access, and it lags: 18 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Madoc grades D for health.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Around Madoc, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Madoc’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 ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Madoc’s region sits 1.7 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 6.7 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 43%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Madoc 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 (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.8)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (18 km)Better than 31% 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
28%
Arthritis
33%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
21%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 39%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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
Getting to hospital from Madoc: 18 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Madoc, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
18 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
7.4 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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, Madoc is on the far side.
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.
79.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
26th
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
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 26th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.3
Economic dependency4.2
Ethno-cultural composition2.3
Situational vulnerability3.6
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Madoc’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
43% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
43%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
81%
Ontario
Mental health trails Ontario: 47% very good or excellent to 51%, with 27% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Madoc’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.2 on the index, regions tend to reach 80.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Madoc belongs to reaches 79.8. It is outlived by 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Madoc
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Madoc’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Tweed live nearer a hospital, at 6.0 km against 18 km in Madoc.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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.
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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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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Madoc alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Madoc
How far is Madoc from a hospital?
A clinic is 7.2 km from the average resident of Madoc and a pharmacy 7.4 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Madoc?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Madoc?
For the health region that includes Madoc, women can expect 81.8 years and men 77.8 (2022/2024).
How is Madoc’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Madoc has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
Photo: mark.watmough from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0