Health in Prince · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Prince scores below 93% of Canadian towns for health
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 46% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Prince’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Prince a grade of D.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the The District of Algoma Health Unit
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Born around Prince, a child can expect 3.6 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Prince than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 15% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Prince’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Less upbeat about their health
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.5 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 45%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Prince 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 (46%)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.9)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (15 km)Better than 41% 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
77.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.5
more years expected at 65
30th
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
The region comes 30th of 34 in Ontario, where life expectancy runs from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.0
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Prince’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (30%) and diabetes (9.6%)
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
30%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.6%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
15%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 43%, the province 30%.
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
The nearest hospital is 15 km from the average home in Prince
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Prince’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
15 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
13 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
9.2 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Prince is on the far side.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 45% to 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
45%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
88%
Ontario
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (48% against 51%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Prince’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.8 about 78.0 years; Prince’s region’s 77.9 is within a year of it. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 79.2 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Prince
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Prince’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Sault Ste. Marie live nearer a hospital, at 3.6 km against 15 km in Prince.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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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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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Prince itself is the trip to care.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Prince
What is the life expectancy in Prince?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.4 for women, 75.6 for men around Prince (2022/2024).
How healthy is Prince?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How far is Prince from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Prince is 13 km from a clinic and 9.2 km from a pharmacy.
How is Prince’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Prince: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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