Photo: Community Archives · CC0Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory scores below 89% of Canadian towns for health
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 45%, behind the 51% for Ontario. Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, further than the usual 3.7 km. Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory. Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (17 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, a child can expect 1.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 6.7 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 43% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
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.
Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory grades D 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.
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 28% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 39%, the province 30%. At 25%, 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.
Getting to hospital from Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: 14 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.3 km for the typical town in Ontario and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory is on the far side.
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.
Life expectancy across the 34 health 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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 26th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory’s 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.
43% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Ontario (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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Ontario (47% against 51%), while 27% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory’s lies near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.2 predicts: 79.8 years, the trend 80.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 7 still live longer, with 81.2 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.
Health in the places around Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory | 14 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
| Deseronto 8.8 km | 8.4 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
| Tyendinaga 12 km | 15 km | 45% | 79.8 | D |
| Greater Napanee 16 km | 5.0 km | 53% | 81.8 | B+ |
| Belleville 18 km | 3.1 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
| Picton 18 km | 8.2 km | 45% | 79.8 | C− |
Greater Napanee falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 81.8 against 79.8 here. Residents of Belleville live nearer a hospital, at 3.1 km against 14 km in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory
How is Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
How healthy is Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How far is Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory from a hospital?
For everyday care, Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory’s residents are 6.1 km from a pharmacy and 3.1 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.8 for women, 77.8 for men around Tyendinaga Mohawk Territory (2022/2024).
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).