Health in Wingham · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Fewer adults feel healthy around Wingham: 45% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Life expectancy in the region is 81.7 years (83.7 for women, 79.7 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 5.8 km from the average resident of Wingham, further than the usual 3.7 km. Wingham grades B for health, #623 of 866 in Ontario and #1,872 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ontario: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Huron Perth Health Unit
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Ontario: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Ontario: 11%
Life expectancy
81.7
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.7 · men 79.7
Nearest hospital
5.8 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Wingham grades B 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 (45%)Better than 15% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (15%)Better than 66% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.7)Better than 70% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (5.8 km)Better than 71% 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: #623 of 866 in Ontario and #1,872 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.
For its deprivation
On the trend for regions as deprived, just over it
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Wingham’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Wingham’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.7, near enough. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 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 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.1%
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
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
7.1%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
25%
Ontario
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Ontario (30%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
Getting care
From Wingham, a hospital is 5.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wingham’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
5.8 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
14 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
From Wingham that is further than the 3.3 km of the typical town in Ontario, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 1.0 km, while the average resident is 5.8 km away.
The neighbours all sit in Wingham’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Howick is the furthest from care, 15 km to Wingham’s 5.8 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Wingham alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in Wingham
How healthy is Wingham?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Wingham’s 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 Wingham’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Wingham from a hospital?
For everyday care, Wingham’s residents are 14 km from a pharmacy and 5.8 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Wingham?
There is no figure for Wingham alone; its health region’s is 83.7 for women and 79.7 for men in 2022/2024.
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