Health in Minden Hills · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Minden Hills: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario’s 51%. Measured from where Minden Hills’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 6.9 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Minden Hills a grade of C+, #744 of 866 in Ontario and #2,178 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
18%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.0
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.0 · men 79.0
Nearest hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Minden Hills 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 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (6.9 km)Better than 68% 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: #744 of 866 in Ontario and #2,178 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
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Minden Hills’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.8 would be expected to reach 81.6 years, and Minden Hills’ region is close, at 81.0. It is outlived by 6 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.
Conditions and habits
28% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 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
28%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
8%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
16%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 22% to 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
The nearest hospital is 6.9 km from the average home in Minden Hills
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Minden Hills’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
17 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.9 km
residents’ average distance
0.4 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
Minden Hills is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 3.3 km, while the average resident is 6.9 km away.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Minden Hills’; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Algonquin Highlands live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 6.9 km in Minden Hills.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Minden Hills alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
Questions about health in Minden Hills
How is Minden Hills’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Minden Hills has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Minden Hills?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Minden Hills from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Minden Hills live: 17 km to a clinic, 6.9 km to a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Minden Hills?
There is no figure for Minden Hills alone; its health region’s is 83.0 for women and 79.0 for men in 2022/2024.
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