Health in St. Joseph · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around St. Joseph is 77.9 years, 3.6 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 46% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. For St. Joseph itself the measure is access: 3.5 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for St. Joseph is C−.
Ontario: 51% · Shared with the rest of the The District of Algoma Health Unit: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The age-standardised smoking rate around St. Joseph is well above the typical town’s; 15% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 19 km from the average home in St. Joseph, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 5.5 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 45% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 30% report high blood pressure and 9.6% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
St. Joseph 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 (46%)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 21% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (77.9)Better than 9% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.5 km)Better than 78% 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
High blood pressure for 30% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.6%
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
30%
Arthritis
29%
Diabetes
9.6%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
15%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
At 43%, self-reported obesity is above Ontario’s 30%.
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 St. Joseph: 3.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is St. Joseph’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
3.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
19 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
St. Joseph is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
45% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
45%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
88%
Ontario
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (48% against 51%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, St. Joseph’s, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.8, the expected figure is 78.0 years, and St. Joseph’s region matches it closely with 77.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 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
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
77.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.5
more years expected at 65
30th
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 30th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.4
Situational vulnerability3.4
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for St. Joseph’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Neighbours
Health in the places around St. Joseph
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in St. Joseph’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Laird live further from a hospital, at 9.2 km against 3.5 km in St. Joseph.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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.
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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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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: St. Joseph shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 St. Joseph
How is St. Joseph’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus St. Joseph’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in St. Joseph?
Women in St. Joseph’s region live to 80.4 on average and men to 75.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is St. Joseph?
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 20% of adults.
How far is St. Joseph from a hospital?
For everyday care, St. Joseph’s residents are 19 km from a pharmacy and 3.1 km from a clinic on average.
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