Photo: P. James Franks · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run shorter around Temiskaming Shores: 77.0 years, 4.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 51% for Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.5 km from the average resident of Temiskaming Shores, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Temiskaming Shores a grade of C+, #772 of 866 in Ontario and #2,232 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Temiskaming Shores
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Temiskaming Shores is well above the typical town’s; 13% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Temiskaming Shores 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: #772 of 866 in Ontario and #2,232 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.
High blood pressure for 26% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 45%, the province 30%. At 22%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Temiskaming Shores’ lies near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Temiskaming Shores belongs to lives about as long as its score of 4.2 predicts: 77.0 years, the trend 76.5. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 7 still live longer, with 78.5 years in the middle.
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 nearest hospital is 4.5 km from the average home in Temiskaming Shores
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Temiskaming Shores’ own, not the region’s.
From Temiskaming Shores 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 32nd 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Temiskaming Shores’ 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Ontario: 52% and 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is behind Ontario, 49% very good or excellent to 51%; 26% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Temiskaming Shores is 27th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,971 to 10,319 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-des-Fées QC B+ | 10,075 | 0.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | City Centre ON B+ | 10,269 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Vincent ON B | 10,011 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 25 | Falconridge AB A+ | 10,218 | 3.9 km | 56% |
| 26 | Penbrooke Meadows AB A | 10,001 | 4.4 km | 56% |
| 27 | Temiskaming Shores ON C+ | 10,144 | 4.5 km | 54% |
| 28 | Lac-Saint-Charles QC A+ | 9,985 | 5.5 km | 62% |
| 29 | Van Kirk ON B+ | 10,014 | 6.4 km | 49% |
| 40 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands ON C+ | 10,185 | 26 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Temiskaming Shores
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temiskaming Shores | 4.5 km | 54% | 77.0 | C+ |
| Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues 14 km | 14 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
| Notre-Dame-du-Nord 19 km | 19 km | 57% | 79.5 | B− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Saint-Bruno-de-Guigues’s life expectancy is 79.5, this region’s 77.0. Notre-Dame-du-Nord is the furthest from care, 19 km to Temiskaming Shores’ 4.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Temiskaming Shores shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Temiskaming Shores
What is the life expectancy in Temiskaming Shores?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.3 for women, 73.6 for men around Temiskaming Shores (2022/2024).
How is Temiskaming Shores’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Temiskaming Shores’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Temiskaming Shores?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
How far is Temiskaming Shores from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Temiskaming Shores is 1.3 km from a clinic and 1.2 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).