Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Charlottetown’s health region
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.3 km from the average resident of Charlottetown, about the norm of 3.7 km. Charlottetown grades B for health, #2 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Charlottetown
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Charlottetown can reach 5.4 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.2 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Charlottetown 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. Its place: #2 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
From Charlottetown, a hospital is 3.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Charlottetown’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Charlottetown are closer than most of the province: the typical town on Prince Edward Island is 8.5 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Charlottetown’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Charlottetown’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. It outlives 5 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.1 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $74,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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%)
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
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.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Charlottetown’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Prince Edward Island: 50% to 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
Mental health reads like the rest of Prince Edward Island: 50% against 50%, and 19% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Charlottetown is 14th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 41,910 to 54,539 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 12 | Vernon BC B+ | 49,527 | 3.0 km | 52% |
| 13 | Pointe-aux-Trembles QC A | 49,869 | 3.0 km | 54% |
| 14 | Charlottetown PE B | 48,118 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 15 | Mission BC B | 47,280 | 3.3 km | 47% |
| 16 | Timmins ON C | 45,569 | 3.6 km | 48% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Charlottetown
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlottetown | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Cornwall 5.4 km | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Stratford 5.8 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Crossroads 9.0 km | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Miltonvale Park 9.4 km | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| North Shore 10 km | 7.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| North Shore 13 km | 12 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Same region, same survey: Charlottetown’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. North Shore is the furthest from care, 12 km to Charlottetown’s 3.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Charlottetown shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Charlottetown
How is Charlottetown’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Charlottetown: 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 Charlottetown?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Charlottetown?
Women in Charlottetown’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Charlottetown from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.9 km from the average resident of Charlottetown and a pharmacy 1.2 km, as the crow flies.
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).