Health in Melancthon · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
A hospital trip from Melancthon means 29 km on average, in a straight line
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. A pharmacy is nearer: 8.8 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Melancthon grades B− for health, #694 of 866 in Ontario and #2,040 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
13%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
82.4
at birth, 2022/2024
women 84.5 · men 80.2
Nearest hospital
29 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Melancthon 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 (51%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 56% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.4)Better than 79% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (29 km)Better than 11% 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: #694 of 866 in Ontario and #2,040 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.
For its deprivation
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Melancthon’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Melancthon’s region, at 2.4, should live about 83.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 82.4, near enough. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 83.0 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
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.3%
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
19%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
31%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
9.5%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Obesity tracks the province: 31% of adults here, 30% across Ontario. 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.
Getting care
Everyday care in Melancthon: the nearest pharmacy 8.8 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Melancthon’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
29 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
11 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
8.8 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
46%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Melancthon that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Dundalk’s life expectancy is 81.3, this region’s 82.4. Residents of Amaranth live nearer a hospital, at 15 km against 29 km in Melancthon.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Melancthon itself is the trip to care.
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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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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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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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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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Melancthon
How far is Melancthon from a hospital?
For everyday care, Melancthon’s residents are 8.8 km from a pharmacy and 11 km from a clinic on average.
How is Melancthon’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Melancthon’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Melancthon?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.5 for women, 80.2 for men around Melancthon (2022/2024).
How healthy is Melancthon?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
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