Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.051% of adults around Cornwall rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.1. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cornwall’s is long: 8.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Cornwall a grade of B, #6 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,863 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Cornwall 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: #6 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,863 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Cornwall’s, follows the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.8 would be expected to reach 81.6 years, and Cornwall’s region is close, at 81.2. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 5 of 10; their 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.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.3% diabetes
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 37%, self-reported obesity is near Prince Edward Island’s 37%.
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.
From Cornwall, a hospital is 8.2 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cornwall, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Cornwall is ordinary: 8.5 km is the typical figure on Prince Edward Island, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
Life expectancy in the region: 81.2 years
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Cornwall’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
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 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Cornwall is 25th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,774 to 8,047 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Shaughnessy BC A+ | 8,034 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 23 | Coteau-du-Lac QC A | 7,839 | 6.2 km | 55% |
| 24 | Minden Hills ON C+ | 7,841 | 6.9 km | 49% |
| 25 | Cornwall PE B | 7,920 | 8.2 km | 51% |
| 26 | Valley Ridge AB A | 7,782 | 8.2 km | 56% |
| 27 | Bienville QC A | 7,888 | 9.0 km | 55% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cornwall
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwall | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Charlottetown 5.4 km | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Stratford 8.3 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kingston 8.8 km | 17 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Miltonvale Park 9.3 km | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| West River 9.9 km | 15 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Crossroads 13 km | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
The neighbours all sit in Cornwall’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Kingston live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 8.2 km in Cornwall.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cornwall itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cornwall
How far is Cornwall from a hospital?
For everyday care, Cornwall’s residents are 5.2 km from a pharmacy and 6.1 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Cornwall?
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 Cornwall?
Women in Cornwall’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Cornwall’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Cornwall’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).