Health in Nipigon · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Nipigon’s health region live to 76.5 on average, 5.0 years short of the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 49% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Measured from where Nipigon’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.8 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Nipigon a grade of C.
Around Nipigon, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
At 76.5 years, Nipigon’s region trails the 78.0 that regions scoring 3.8 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Nipigon’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Nipigon 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 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.5)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.8 km)Better than 96% 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
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (8.8%)
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 41% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% 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
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.5 years behind the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Nipigon’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 3.8, Nipigon’s region’s 76.5 years sit under the line’s 78.0. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 79.2.
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
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
76.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
33rd
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 33rd 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 instability2.6
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Nipigon’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Nipigon: 0.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Nipigon’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.6 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Nipigon is on the near side.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 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
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health trails Ontario: 47% very good or excellent to 51%, with 18% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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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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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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. Only the distances on this page belong to Nipigon alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Nipigon
What is the life expectancy in Nipigon?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Nipigon’s health region only: 79.0 years for women and 74.1 for men (2022/2024).
How is Nipigon’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Nipigon’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Nipigon?
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 18% of adults.
How far is Nipigon from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Nipigon is 0.6 km from a clinic and 0.8 km from a pharmacy.
Photo: Andre Carrotflower · CC BY-SA 4.0