Health in Morrisburg · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
49% of adults around Morrisburg rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.0, with women at 83.0 and men at 78.9. Measured from where Morrisburg’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 22 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Morrisburg a grade of C, #802 of 866 in Ontario and #2,299 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
For 0% of homes in Morrisburg the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 20 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Morrisburg than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Morrisburg 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 37% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 29% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (22 km)Better than 21% 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: #802 of 866 in Ontario and #2,299 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 22 km from the average home in Morrisburg
Straight-line distances from each part of Morrisburg, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
22 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
6.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
5.1 km
residents’ average distance
0.8 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
Morrisburg is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
23%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 39% 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.
For its deprivation
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Morrisburg’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)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.2 would be expected to reach 80.3 years, and Morrisburg’s region is close, at 81.0. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 81.0.
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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Ontario, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
18th
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 18th 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 instability2.5
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.8
Situational vulnerability3.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Morrisburg’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (51%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
48%
Health fair or poor
22%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
27%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
87%
Ontario
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 53% very good or excellent to 51%; 27% 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.
Towns its size
Morrisburg is 38th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,663 to 12,244 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.4 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Cardinal’s life expectancy is 81.2, this region’s 81.0.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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.
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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 Morrisburg’s own.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in Morrisburg
How far is Morrisburg from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Morrisburg is 6.5 km from a clinic and 5.1 km from a pharmacy.
How is Morrisburg’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Morrisburg’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Morrisburg?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Morrisburg?
Women in Morrisburg’s region live to 83.0 on average and men to 78.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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