Health in Fitzroy · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
For health, Fitzroy is ahead of 87% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole manages 51%. For Fitzroy itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Fitzroy grades A for health, #282 of 866 in Ontario and #839 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Fitzroy’s region sits 2.2 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs low
Around Fitzroy, only 5.9% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Fitzroy the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 16 km. Getting care ↓
Upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.1 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 56%. Health survey ↓
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
Fitzroy grades A 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 (56%)Better than 72% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 61% of Canadian towns
Smokers (8.6%)Better than 96% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (83.7)Better than 98% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (13 km)Better than 45% 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: #282 of 866 in Ontario and #839 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 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.
83.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
22.1
more years expected at 65
5th
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 5th 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 instability1.7
Economic dependency2.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability2.5
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Fitzroy’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.6% 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
18%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
6.6%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
8.6%
Smoke every day
5.9%
Heavy drinking
18%
Ontario
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 30% across Ontario.
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 Fitzroy: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fitzroy’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
13 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
9.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.3 km
residents’ average distance
0.6 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
Fitzroy is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
More people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 56% to 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
56%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
50%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
59%
Satisfied with life
82%
Ontario
Stress touches 25% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 50%, the province 51% (Ontario).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Fitzroy’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.3 would be expected to reach 83.6 years, and Fitzroy’s region is close, at 83.7. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (8 of 10), with a median of 83.0.
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.
Towns its size
Fitzroy is 31st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,312 to 6,492 people, median 4.9 km.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Pontiac’s life expectancy is 80.7, this region’s 83.7. Arnprior is the closest to care, 1.6 km to Fitzroy’s 13 km.
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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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fitzroy shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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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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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Fitzroy
What is the life expectancy in Fitzroy?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Fitzroy’s health region only: 85.7 years for women and 81.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Fitzroy’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Fitzroy’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Fitzroy from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Fitzroy live: 9.5 km to a clinic, 4.3 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Fitzroy?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
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