Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0North Algona Wilberforce’s health region counts 16% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Ontario (51%). Measured from where North Algona Wilberforce’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 25 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives North Algona Wilberforce a grade of C−, #828 of 866 in Ontario and #2,396 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in North Algona Wilberforce
A long way to hospital
For 21% of homes in North Algona Wilberforce the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 27% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.2 out of 5, North Algona Wilberforce sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
North Algona Wilberforce’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.4 predicts: 81.0 years against 79.2. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
North Algona Wilberforce 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.
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: #828 of 866 in Ontario and #2,396 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.
The nearest hospital is 25 km from the average home in North Algona Wilberforce
Straight-line distances from each part of North Algona Wilberforce, weighted by who lives there.
From North Algona Wilberforce that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
The region lives 1.8 years longer than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; North Algona Wilberforce’s region’s dot is above the line.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet North Algona Wilberforce’s region beats it: 81.0 years against the 79.2 the trend gives a score of 3.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 79.1.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (27%) and diabetes (10%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 40%, the province 30%. At 26%, 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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 18th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for North Algona Wilberforce 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.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 48% very good or excellent, against 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (55% against 51%), while 21% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
North Algona Wilberforce is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,244 to 3,336 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rankin Inlet NU D | 3,336 | 0.5 km | 39% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Virden MB B− | 3,322 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 34 | Sainte-Clotilde QC B+ | 3,297 | 23 km | 55% |
| 35 | Inverness County, Subdivision C NS D | 3,314 | 23 km | 49% |
| 36 | North Algona Wilberforce ON C− | 3,290 | 25 km | 50% |
| 37 | Electoral Area A, Sunshine Coast BC A | 3,256 | 27 km | 59% |
| 38 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
| 40 | Arviat NU D− | 3,330 | 216 km | 39% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around North Algona Wilberforce
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Algona Wilberforce | 25 km | 50% | 81.0 | C− |
| Eganville 11 km | 32 km | 50% | 81.0 | C− |
Only the hospital column is local here: North Algona Wilberforce and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: North Algona Wilberforce shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in North Algona Wilberforce
How far is North Algona Wilberforce from a hospital?
Residents of North Algona Wilberforce have a clinic 8.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 8.3 km away, in straight lines.
How is North Algona Wilberforce’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 North Algona Wilberforce’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is North Algona Wilberforce?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in North Algona Wilberforce?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.0 for women, 78.7 for men around North Algona Wilberforce (2022/2024).
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).