Health in Smooth Rock Falls · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 77.3 years of life in the region around Smooth Rock Falls, 4.2 under the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than Ontario’s 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Smooth Rock Falls is well placed: 1.5 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Smooth Rock Falls a grade of C.
Around Smooth Rock Falls, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 60 km from the average home in Smooth Rock Falls, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Smooth Rock Falls 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.
Health Grade
Smooth Rock Falls 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 (48%)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.3)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (1.5 km)Better than 89% 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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 12% 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
24%
Diabetes
12%
Obese (self-reported)
45%
Mood disorder
18%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
29%
Ontario
At 45%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Smooth Rock Falls: 1.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Smooth Rock Falls’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
49 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
60 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, Smooth Rock Falls is on the near side.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
77.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.2
more years expected at 65
31st
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
Among the 34 regions in Ontario, from 73.7 to 86.3 years, this one is 31st.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.2
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.1
The index is context and never graded: it describes Smooth Rock Falls’ 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 1.3 years more here
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Smooth Rock Falls’ lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 4.3, Smooth Rock Falls’ region would be expected to reach 76.0 years; it reaches 77.3. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 6 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.5 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.
Health survey
48% 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
Health very good or excellent
48%
Health fair or poor
22%
Mental health very good or excellent
46%
Mental health fair or poor
23%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
83%
Ontario
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 46% very good or excellent to 51%; 24% 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 to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Smooth Rock Falls shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
Questions about health in Smooth Rock Falls
What is the life expectancy in Smooth Rock Falls?
Women in Smooth Rock Falls’ region live to 80.1 on average and men to 74.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Smooth Rock Falls’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Smooth Rock Falls’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Smooth Rock Falls?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Smooth Rock Falls from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Smooth Rock Falls is 49 km from a clinic and 60 km from a pharmacy.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0