Health in Point Edward · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Point Edward: 80.0 years, 1.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%, behind the 51% for Ontario. What sets Point Edward apart within its region is distance, and at 2.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Point Edward a grade of B−.
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would give Point Edward’s region about 81.7 years; it stops at 80.0. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Point Edward, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Point Edward can reach 7.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.0 km off. 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
Point Edward 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 (49%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
Smokers (14%)Better than 38% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.6 km)Better than 82% 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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 1.7 years less than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Point Edward’s region is below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.7 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Point Edward belongs to trails at 80.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 8 still live longer, with 81.3 years in the middle. A household income of about $83,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.4% 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
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
9.4%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
14%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
24%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 37%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Point Edward: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Point Edward’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.0 km
residents’ average distance
7.2 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
Against 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Point Edward sits near the middle.
Same region, same survey: Point Edward’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Corunna is the furthest from care, 13 km to Point Edward’s 2.6 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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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.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Point Edward itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Point Edward
How is Point Edward’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Point Edward’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Point Edward?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.2 for women, 77.8 for men around Point Edward (2022/2024).
How healthy is Point Edward?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Point Edward from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.2 km from the average resident of Point Edward and a pharmacy 1.0 km, as the crow flies.
Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0