Health in Schreiber · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Schreiber’s health region live to 76.5 on average, 5.0 years short of the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 49% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. Measured from where Schreiber’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Schreiber is C−.
Smoking is commoner around Schreiber than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 13% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Schreiber the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Schreiber’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 3.8 predicts: 76.5 years against 78.0. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Schreiber at 4.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Schreiber grades C− 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 38% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.5)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (12 km)Better than 49% 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.
Conditions and habits
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.8% diabetes
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 41%, the province 30%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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
The nearest hospital is 12 km from the average home in Schreiber
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Schreiber’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
12 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
12 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, Schreiber is on the far side.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.5 years behind the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Schreiber’s lies 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 3.8, Schreiber’s region’s 76.5 years sit under the line’s 78.0. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 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.
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.
76.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.2
more years expected at 65
33rd
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 33rd 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 instability3.0
Economic dependency4.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability4.4
The index is context and never graded: it describes Schreiber’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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Ontario: 48% 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
48%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
47%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 47% very good or excellent to 51%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Schreiber
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Schreiber and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Terrace Bay live nearer a hospital, at 0.9 km against 12 km in Schreiber.
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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Schreiber itself is the trip to care.
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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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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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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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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Schreiber
What is the life expectancy in Schreiber?
For the health region that includes Schreiber, women can expect 79.0 years and men 74.1 (2022/2024).
How is Schreiber’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Schreiber has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Schreiber from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Schreiber live: 0.7 km to a clinic, 12 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Schreiber?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
Photo: Schreiber Public Library · Public domain