Health in Mulmur · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
51% of adults around Mulmur rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 82.4 years (84.5 for women, 80.2 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 18 km from the average resident of Mulmur, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Mulmur a grade of B−, #668 of 866 in Ontario and #1,963 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Measured across the Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Mulmur live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (15 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Mulmur 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 (18 km)Better than 31% 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: #668 of 866 in Ontario and #1,963 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 18 km from the average home in Mulmur
Straight-line distances from each part of Mulmur, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
18 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
14 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
10 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
Mulmur is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Mulmur’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Mulmur’s region fits it, 82.4 years at 2.4 against the line’s 83.0. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% 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
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 is close to the province’s level, 31% 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.
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.
82.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.9
more years expected at 65
8th
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 8th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.9
Economic dependency2.6
Ethno-cultural composition2.6
Situational vulnerability2.2
This is the one part of the block measured for Mulmur itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Ontario (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
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
Asked about their mental health, 49% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 23% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Mulmur comes 30th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,739 to 3,891 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.9 km.
Across a regional line, Adjala-Tosorontio has its own figures: life expectancy 81.5, against 82.4 here. Residents of Melancthon live further from a hospital, at 29 km against 18 km in Mulmur.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Mulmur itself is the trip to care.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
Questions about health in Mulmur
How is Mulmur’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Mulmur has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Mulmur from a hospital?
For everyday care, Mulmur’s residents are 10 km from a pharmacy and 14 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Mulmur?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Mulmur’s health region only: 84.5 years for women and 80.2 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Mulmur?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
Photo: Michael from Calgary, AB, Canada · CC BY 2.0