Photo: Tango7174 · CC BY-SA 4.0Expect 78.5 years of life in the region around Irishtown-Summerside, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 52% for Newfoundland and Labrador. Closer to home, a hospital is 4.9 km from the average resident of Irishtown-Summerside, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Irishtown-Summerside is C−.
What stands out about health in Irishtown-Summerside
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Irishtown-Summerside is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 31% of adults, diabetes for 14%. Conditions and habits ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.6 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
More years than its deprivation would give
Irishtown-Summerside’s region beats what its deprivation score of 4.3 predicts: 78.5 years against 76.0. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Irishtown-Summerside 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.
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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.5 years
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Irishtown-Summerside’s lies above the line.
At 4.3 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 76.0 years, and the region Irishtown-Summerside belongs to reaches 78.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 77.9 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.
High blood pressure for 31% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is near Newfoundland and Labrador’s 42%.
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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Newfoundland and Labrador (50%)
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
Stress touches 19% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 56%, the province 54% (Newfoundland and Labrador).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Irishtown-Summerside: 4.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Irishtown-Summerside, weighted by who lives there.
Irishtown-Summerside is closer in than the provincial norm of 8.5 km in Newfoundland and Labrador, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
How the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Newfoundland and Labrador, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 5 health regions in Newfoundland and Labrador, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 77.1 and a high of 80.2.
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; Irishtown-Summerside’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.
Health in the places around Irishtown-Summerside
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Irishtown-Summerside | 4.9 km | 47% | 78.5 | C− |
| Corner Brook 4.3 km | 2.5 km | 47% | 78.5 | C |
| Massey Drive 6.4 km | 2.9 km | 47% | 78.5 | C |
| Humber Arm South 16 km | 17 km | 47% | 78.5 | D |
One health region covers Irishtown-Summerside and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Humber Arm South is the furthest from care, 17 km to Irishtown-Summerside’s 4.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Irishtown-Summerside alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Irishtown-Summerside
What is the life expectancy in Irishtown-Summerside?
Women in Irishtown-Summerside’s region live to 81.1 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Irishtown-Summerside?
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 20% of adults.
How is Irishtown-Summerside’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Irishtown-Summerside has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Irishtown-Summerside from a hospital?
Residents of Irishtown-Summerside have a clinic 169 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.2 km away, in straight lines.
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).