Health in Moosonee · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Moosonee’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 4.2 years: life expectancy 77.3
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. What sets Moosonee apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Moosonee is C.
Around Moosonee, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Moosonee takes a trip of 242 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Moosonee sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Health Grade
Moosonee 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 (48%)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.3)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.6 km)Better than 98% 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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 12% 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
23%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
12%
Obese (self-reported)
45%
Mood disorder
18%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
29%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 45%, the province 30%. At 29%, heavy drinking beats 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 Moosonee: 0.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Moosonee’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
242 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
From Moosonee that is nearer than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
77.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.2
more years expected at 65
31st
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, 31st 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 instability3.0
Economic dependency1.4
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Moosonee’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
The region lives 1.3 years longer than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Moosonee’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 4.3 on the index, the line expects 76.0 years; Moosonee’s region reaches 77.3. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 78.5 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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 48% to 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
22%
Mental health very good or excellent
46%
Mental health fair or poor
23%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
83%
Ontario
Mental health trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent to 51%, with 24% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Moosonee
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Moosonee’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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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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 Moosonee’s own.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Moosonee
What is the life expectancy in Moosonee?
Women in Moosonee’s region live to 80.1 on average and men to 74.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Moosonee?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Moosonee from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Moosonee is 2.3 km from a clinic and 242 km from a pharmacy.
How is Moosonee’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Moosonee: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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