Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Central Prince’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.3 and men 79.1 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 22 km from the average resident of Central Prince, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Central Prince a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Central Prince
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Central Prince the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Central Prince takes a trip of 16 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Central Prince sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Central Prince 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 22 km from the average home in Central Prince
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Central Prince’s own, not the region’s.
Central Prince is further out than the provincial norm of 8.5 km on Prince Edward Island, 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.
One region, one figure: 81.2 years of life
Regional life expectancy on Prince Edward Island, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Central Prince’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Central Prince’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Central Prince’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.6. It outlives 5 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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 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.
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
Mental health is no outlier: 50% say very good or excellent (Prince Edward Island: 50%) and 19% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Central Prince
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Central Prince | 22 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Wellington 14 km | 21 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| O'Leary 19 km | 6.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
One health region covers Central Prince and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. O'Leary is the closest to care, 6.3 km to Central Prince’s 22 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Central Prince shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Central Prince
How far is Central Prince from a hospital?
For everyday care, Central Prince’s residents are 16 km from a pharmacy and 6.6 km from a clinic on average.
How is Central Prince’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Central Prince’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Central Prince?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Central Prince?
For the health region that includes Central Prince, women can expect 83.3 years and men 79.1 (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).