Health in North Frontenac · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
North Frontenac sits a long way from hospital care: 47 km for the average resident
Self-rated health is ordinary for Ontario: 53% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. A pharmacy is nearer: 20 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. North Frontenac grades B− for health, #701 of 866 in Ontario and #2,054 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Picking up a prescription in North Frontenac takes a trip of 20 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
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
North Frontenac 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 (53%)Better than 57% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.8)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (47 km)Better than 4% 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: #701 of 866 in Ontario and #2,054 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
Everyday care in North Frontenac: the nearest pharmacy 20 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of North Frontenac, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
47 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
20 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
20 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
North Frontenac is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; North Frontenac’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)
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one North Frontenac belongs to reaches 81.8. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 9 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.2 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.5%
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
23%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
34%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.8%
Heavy drinking
22%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 34%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 22% to the province’s 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
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 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.
81.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.8
more years expected at 65
10th
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
Ranked 10th of 34 in Ontario: the regions span 73.7 to 86.3 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability2.7
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where North Frontenac’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
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 52% and 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
52%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, North Frontenac is 40th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,500 to 2,587 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.7 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry North Frontenac’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to North Frontenac alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
Questions about health in North Frontenac
How far is North Frontenac from a hospital?
For everyday care, North Frontenac’s residents are 20 km from a pharmacy and 20 km from a clinic on average.
How is North Frontenac’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so North Frontenac has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is North Frontenac?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in North Frontenac?
Women in North Frontenac’s region live to 83.9 on average and men to 79.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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