Health in Nipissing · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
On health, Nipissing falls short of 91% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Measured from where Nipissing’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 26 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Nipissing is D.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
19%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around Nipissing is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Nipissing’s own health question: 29% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 26 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Nipissing, a pharmacy is 18 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Nipissing’s region gains years: 80.0 where the trend says 78.2. For its deprivation ↓
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
Nipissing grades D 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 (47%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Smokers (18%)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (26 km)Better than 14% 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
27% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.7% diabetes
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
27%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.7%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
18%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
At 36%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 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 Nipissing: 26 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Nipissing, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
26 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
12 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
18 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
29%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Nipissing is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 1.8 years
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Nipissing’s region 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 Nipissing’s region beats it: 80.0 years against the 78.2 the trend gives a score of 3.7. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 78.2 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.
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.
80.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
24th
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 24th of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.6
Situational vulnerability2.9
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Nipissing’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
46% 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
46%
Health fair or poor
20%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
20%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
61%
Satisfied with life
81%
Ontario
Asked about their mental health, 49% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Ontario it was 51%, and 25% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Nipissing
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Nipissing’s regional figures.
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. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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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. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Nipissing shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
Questions about health in Nipissing
How far is Nipissing from a hospital?
A clinic is 12 km from the average resident of Nipissing and a pharmacy 18 km, as the crow flies.
How is Nipissing’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Nipissing’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Nipissing?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
What is the life expectancy in Nipissing?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Nipissing’s health region only: 82.6 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
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