Health in Timmins · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Timmins is 77.3 years, 4.2 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole reaches 51%. What sets Timmins apart within its region is distance, and at 3.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Timmins a grade of C, #812 of 866 in Ontario and #2,326 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
The age-standardised smoking rate around Timmins is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Timmins’ neighbourhoods average 4.3 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Timmins 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 (3.6 km)Better than 77% 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. Its place: #812 of 866 in Ontario and #2,326 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (12%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 45% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 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.
The wider area
How the 34 health regions in Ontario compare on life expectancy
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.
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
Life expectancy in Ontario runs from 73.7 to 86.3; this region sits 31st of the 34.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency2.9
Ethno-cultural composition1.9
Situational vulnerability4.3
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Timmins’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
1.3 years above the line for regions this deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Timmins’ region comes out above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Timmins’ region sits above it: 77.3 years where a score of 4.3 predicts 76.0. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Timmins: 3.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Timmins, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
3.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.0 km
residents’ average distance
2.7 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
Timmins is near the provincial norm, 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 0.8 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 3.6 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Timmins alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
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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. 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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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.
Questions about health in Timmins
What is the life expectancy in Timmins?
There is no figure for Timmins alone; its health region’s is 80.1 for women and 74.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Timmins’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Timmins has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Timmins?
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 Timmins from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Timmins live: 2.2 km to a clinic, 2.0 km to a pharmacy.
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