Health in Windsor · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Windsor’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.3 years, 83.5 for a girl and 79.2 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Windsor apart within its region is distance, and at 3.4 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). At 12%, the share of adults who smoke is close to the 11% for Ontario.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Windsor-Essex County Health Unit
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The average resident of Windsor can reach 9.5 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Health Grade
Health in Windsor: the grade is still to come
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
52%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
18%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
12%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
81.3
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
3.4 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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.
Getting care
From Windsor, a hospital is 3.4 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Windsor’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 km
residents’ average distance
9.5 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
For distance to care Windsor is ordinary: 3.3 km is the typical figure in Ontario, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.6 km, while the average resident is 3.4 km away.
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Windsor’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.2 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 80.2 years, and the region Windsor belongs to reaches 81.3. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (6 of 10, median 80.9 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.8%
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
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
8.8%
Obese (self-reported)
36%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.4%
Heavy drinking
20%
Ontario
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 36% of adults against 30% for Ontario. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 20% 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
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.4
more years expected at 65
13th
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
This region is 13th longest-lived of 34 in Ontario, on a scale from 73.7 to 86.3 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency3.9
Ethno-cultural composition4.1
Situational vulnerability3.6
The index is context and never graded: it describes Windsor’s 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.
Health survey
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
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
86%
Ontario
On mental health the region tracks Ontario, 51% very good or excellent to 51%; 22% 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Windsor
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
South WalkervilleRemington ParkFontainebleauWalkervilleEast WindsorSouth CentralWindsor
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Windsor’s regional figures.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Windsor shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. 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.
Questions about health in Windsor
Does Windsor have a Health grade?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Windsor’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Windsor?
Women in Windsor’s region live to 83.5 on average and men to 79.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Windsor?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Windsor from a hospital?
For everyday care, Windsor’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy and 1.8 km from a clinic on average.
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