Health in Lambton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
The nearest hospital is 31 km from the average home in Lambton
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 57%; Quebec as a whole is at 57%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 18 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Lambton grades A− for health.
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.0, would put Lambton’s region near 81.0 years; it reaches 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 9.1% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Lambton, a pharmacy is 18 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Lambton’s region sits 1.4 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lambton grades A− 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 (57%)Better than 79% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (14%)Better than 95% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 67% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (82.9)Better than 93% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (31 km)Better than 9% 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.
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
1.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Lambton’s region shows 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 Lambton’s region sits above it: 82.9 years where a score of 3.0 predicts 81.0. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 9 of them below it, a median of 80.4. The towns here bring in about $67,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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 9.1%
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
19%
Arthritis
19%
Diabetes
9.1%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
8.8%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.9%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
27%
Quebec
Obesity tracks the province: 29% of adults here, 29% across Quebec.
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 care
Pharmacies around Lambton: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 18 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Lambton, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
31 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
18 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
74%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 5.3 km for the typical town in Quebec and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Lambton is on the far side.
Not every neighbour shares the region: La Guadeloupe’s life expectancy is 82.8, this region’s 82.9.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Lambton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Lambton
How far is Lambton from a hospital?
Residents of Lambton have a clinic 2.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 18 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Lambton?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
How is Lambton’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 Lambton’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lambton?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 84.8 for women, 81.0 for men around Lambton (2022/2024).
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