Health in Mississauga · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run long around Mississauga: 85.3 years, 3.8 more than the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Ontario as a whole is at 51%. Measured from where Mississauga’s residents live, a hospital is 3.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The region has fewer smokers than Ontario, 8.2% of adults to 11%.
At 85.3 years, Mississauga’s region outlives the 82.9 that regions scoring 2.5 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Mississauga is well below the typical town’s; 5.9% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Mississauga can reach 25 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
No Health grade for Mississauga yet
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
49%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
19%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
8.2%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
85.3
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.7 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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
Ahead of regions as deprived by 2.4 years of life
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Mississauga’s region’s dot is above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Mississauga’s region beats it: 85.3 years against the 82.9 the trend gives a score of 2.5. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 82.7.
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 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 12%
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
21%
Arthritis
16%
Diabetes
12%
Obese (self-reported)
27%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
8.4%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
8.2%
Smoke every day
5.9%
Heavy drinking
11%
Ontario
Fewer adults report obesity than across Ontario: 27%, the province 30%. At 11%, heavy drinking trails the provincial 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 Mississauga: 3.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mississauga’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.7 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
25 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
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Mississauga sits near the middle.
One health region covers Mississauga and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Mississauga’s own.
Questions about health in Mississauga
What is the life expectancy in Mississauga?
There is no figure for Mississauga alone; its health region’s is 87.2 for women and 83.3 for men in 2022/2024.
Does Mississauga have a Health grade?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Mississauga has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Mississauga?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Mississauga from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mississauga is 1.9 km from a clinic and 0.5 km from a pharmacy.
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