Photo: Thelma A Phillips · CC BY-SA 3.051% of adults around Alberton rate 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). Measured from where Alberton’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.5 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Alberton a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Alberton
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 17 km from the average home in Alberton, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Alberton’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
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.
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.
The nearest hospital is 0.5 km from the average home in Alberton
Straight-line distances from each part of Alberton, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town on Prince Edward Island and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Alberton is on the near side.
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.
One region, one figure: 81.2 years of life
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region on Prince Edward Island, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Alberton itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Alberton’s region shows close to the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Alberton belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (5 of 10, 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.3%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 37% of adults against 37% for 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.
Self-rated health much as in Prince Edward Island: 50% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Prince Edward Island it was 50%, and 19% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Alberton
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alberton | 0.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Alberton 4.4 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Miminegash 12 km | 13 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| O'Leary 15 km | 6.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| O'Leary 16 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Tignish 19 km | 17 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Every place around Alberton shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Tignish is the furthest from care, 17 km to Alberton’s 0.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 far is Alberton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Alberton’s residents are 17 km from a pharmacy and 0.5 km from a clinic on average.
How is Alberton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Alberton: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Alberton?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
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.
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).