Health in St.-Charles · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around St.-Charles is 79.1 years, 2.4 less than for the typical Canadian town
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Ontario. What sets St.-Charles apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 24 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). St.-Charles grades C− for health.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Sudbury and District Health Unit
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of St.-Charles live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (24 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Around St.-Charles, 13% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in St.-Charles takes a trip of 22 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 24% of adults, diabetes for 9.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
St.-Charles 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 (51%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 18% of Canadian towns
Smokers (16%)Better than 23% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.1)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (24 km)Better than 18% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from St.-Charles: 24 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of St.-Charles, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
24 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
24 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
22 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, St.-Charles is on the far side.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.5%
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
24%
Arthritis
28%
Diabetes
9.5%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
19%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
13%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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.
For its deprivation
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 0.8 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, St.-Charles’, lies over the trend.
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 3.7, St.-Charles’ region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 79.1. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.2 years. Its towns’ household income, about $82,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
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.
79.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
28th
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 28th 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 instability2.6
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability4.7
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where St.-Charles’ 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 51% and 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
51%
Health fair or poor
17%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
64%
Satisfied with life
85%
Ontario
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (51% against 51%), while 22% call most days 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 St.-Charles
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: St.-Charles and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for St.-Charles itself is the trip to care.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in St.-Charles
How far is St.-Charles from a hospital?
A clinic is 24 km from the average resident of St.-Charles and a pharmacy 22 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in St.-Charles?
Statistics Canada publishes it for St.-Charles’ health region only: 82.0 years for women and 76.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is St.-Charles’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far St.-Charles’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is St.-Charles?
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 20% of adults.
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