Health in Sandy Lake 88 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Sandy Lake 88 scores below 93% of Canadian towns for health
Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 126 km from the average resident of Sandy Lake 88, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Sandy Lake 88 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Sandy Lake 88 itself. The Health grade for Sandy Lake 88 is D.
Born around Sandy Lake 88, a child can expect 7.8 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 100% of homes in Sandy Lake 88 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 126 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.4, would give Sandy Lake 88’s region about 75.9 years; it stops at 73.7. For its deprivation ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Sandy Lake 88 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Sandy Lake 88 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 (44%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (73.7)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (126 km)Better than 1% 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
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
73.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
34th
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
No region of the 34 in Ontario has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 86.3, a gap of 12.6 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sandy Lake 88’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Sandy Lake 88: 126 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sandy Lake 88’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
126 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
181 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
230 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
Sandy Lake 88 is further out than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Sandy Lake 88’s region is below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 4.4, Sandy Lake 88’s region’s 73.7 years sit under the line’s 75.9. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 78.5. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $84,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (5.8%)
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
20%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
5.8%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
31%
Ontario
At 43%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (31% against 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 43% very good or excellent, against 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
43%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (44% against 51%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sandy Lake 88 itself is the trip to care.
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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.
Questions about health in Sandy Lake 88
What is the life expectancy in Sandy Lake 88?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sandy Lake 88’s health region only: 75.2 years for women and 72.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Sandy Lake 88 from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Sandy Lake 88 is 181 km from a clinic and 230 km from a pharmacy.
How is Sandy Lake 88’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Sandy Lake 88 has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
How healthy is Sandy Lake 88?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.