Health in Alberton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Around Alberton, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.1 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Alberton apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Alberton is B.
Prince Edward Island: 51% · Very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy for the Prince Edward Island health region
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Prince Edward Island: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Prince Edward Island: 12%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.3 · men 79.1
Nearest hospital
5.9 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Alberton 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 (51%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 49% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (5.9 km)Better than 70% 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
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Alberton’s region’s dot is 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 Alberton’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.6 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 5 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.1 years. Judged by income, around $74,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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 9.3%
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
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.3%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
23%
Flu shot in the past year
45%
Prince Edward Island
Obesity tracks the province: 37% of adults here, 37% across Prince Edward Island.
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
Getting to hospital from Alberton: 5.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Alberton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
5.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.9 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
Alberton is closer in than the provincial norm of 8.5 km on Prince Edward Island, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Alberton and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Miminegash is the furthest from care, 13 km to Alberton’s 5.9 km.
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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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. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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.
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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: Alberton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Alberton
How is Alberton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Alberton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Alberton?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Alberton from a hospital?
Residents of Alberton have a clinic 5.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 14 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Alberton?
There is no figure for Alberton alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 2022/2024.
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