Photo: Julius177 · CC BY-SA 4.0More smokers around Sturgeon Falls: 18% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 51% in Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.2 km from the average resident of Sturgeon Falls, further than the usual 3.7 km. Sturgeon Falls grades C− for health, #822 of 866 in Ontario and #2,360 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sturgeon Falls
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Sturgeon Falls, a child can expect 1.5 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 4.3 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (46% as answered). Health survey ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Sturgeon Falls at 4.6 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
At 80.0 years, Sturgeon Falls’ region outlives the 78.2 that regions scoring 3.7 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sturgeon 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.
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: #822 of 866 in Ontario and #2,360 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 1.8 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Sturgeon Falls’, lies over the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Sturgeon Falls’ region, at 3.7, should live about 78.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 80.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (9 of 10), with a median of 78.2.
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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 24th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sturgeon Falls’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health trails Ontario: 46% very good or excellent, against 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (49% against 51%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 27% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.7%
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
Self-reported obesity, 36%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
Getting to hospital from Sturgeon Falls: 7.2 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sturgeon Falls’ own, not the region’s.
From Sturgeon Falls that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Sturgeon Falls is 34th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 16,222 to 17,166 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 32 | Chutes-Montmorency QC A+ | 16,273 | 5.7 km | 62% |
| 33 | Elder Mills ON A− | 16,790 | 6.9 km | 51% |
| 34 | Sturgeon Falls ON C− | 16,682 | 7.2 km | 47% |
| 35 | Notre-Dame-des-Laurentides QC A+ | 16,222 | 7.5 km | 62% |
| 36 | Surrey Centre BC A | 16,482 | 9.1 km | 50% |
| 40 | Leduc County AB B− | 16,400 | 17 km | 51% |
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
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sturgeon Falls itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Sturgeon Falls
How is Sturgeon Falls’ 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 Sturgeon Falls’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Sturgeon Falls?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Sturgeon Falls?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sturgeon Falls’ health region only: 82.6 years for women and 77.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Sturgeon Falls from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Sturgeon Falls is 6.9 km from a clinic and 4.2 km from a pharmacy.
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).