Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0People in Sioux Lookout’s health region live to 73.7 on average, 7.8 years short of the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 44% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. For Sioux Lookout itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Sioux Lookout a grade of C, #792 of 866 in Ontario and #2,277 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sioux Lookout
Behind regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 4.4, would give Sioux Lookout’s region about 75.9 years; it stops at 73.7. For its deprivation ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Sioux Lookout, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs low
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.2 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 43% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Sioux Lookout sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sioux Lookout 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.
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: #792 of 866 in Ontario and #2,277 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.
2.2 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Sioux Lookout’s region is below the line.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 4.4 would suggest 75.9 years, but Sioux Lookout’s region stops at 73.7. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 78.5. Households here earn around $84,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
High blood pressure for 20% of adults in the region, diabetes for 5.8%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
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.
43% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 44% very good or excellent to 51%; 20% 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.
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Ontario, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the shortest-lived of the 34 regions in Ontario, 12.6 years behind the first at 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Sioux Lookout’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Sioux Lookout: 2.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Sioux Lookout, weighted by who lives there.
Sioux Lookout is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
Sioux Lookout is 16th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,035 to 6,213 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | South Walkerville ON B+ | 6,129 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 14 | Glenora AB B+ | 6,197 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 15 | Rosemount ON A | 6,169 | 2.3 km | 53% |
| 16 | Sioux Lookout ON C | 6,122 | 2.4 km | 44% |
| 17 | Central Business Dis ON B | 6,127 | 2.6 km | 53% |
| 18 | Richmond West MB B+ | 6,114 | 2.7 km | 52% |
| 40 | Saint-Césaire QC B+ | 6,150 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sioux Lookout itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sioux Lookout
What is the life expectancy in Sioux Lookout?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sioux Lookout’s health region only: 75.2 years for women and 72.3 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Sioux Lookout?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How is Sioux Lookout’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Sioux Lookout: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Sioux Lookout from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.6 km from the average resident of Sioux Lookout and a pharmacy 2.7 km, as the crow flies.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).