Health in Manitouwadge · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Manitouwadge is 76.5 years, 5.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Manitouwadge is well placed: 1.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Manitouwadge a grade of C.
Around Manitouwadge, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 60 km from the average home in Manitouwadge, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.8, the trend across regions gives 78.0 years of life; Manitouwadge’s region reaches only 76.5. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Manitouwadge’s neighbourhoods average 4.7 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Manitouwadge 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.
Very good or excellent health (49%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.5)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.0 km)Better than 94% 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
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.8% diabetes
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
At 41%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Manitouwadge: 1.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Manitouwadge’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
51 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
60 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, Manitouwadge is on the near side.
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Manitouwadge’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.8 about 78.0 years of life. Manitouwadge’s region falls short of it, at 76.5. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 79.2 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
76.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
33rd
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 33rd 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 instability3.4
Economic dependency4.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.9
Situational vulnerability4.7
The index is context and never graded: it describes Manitouwadge’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 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
48%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 47% very good or excellent to 51%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Manitouwadge alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
Questions about health in Manitouwadge
What is the life expectancy in Manitouwadge?
Women in Manitouwadge’s region live to 79.0 on average and men to 74.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Manitouwadge?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Manitouwadge from a hospital?
Residents of Manitouwadge have a clinic 51 km away on average and a pharmacy 60 km away, in straight lines.
How is Manitouwadge’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Manitouwadge has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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