Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain51% of adults around Crossroads rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.3, men 79.1, in 2022/2024. What sets Crossroads apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Crossroads grades B for health.
Crossroads 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Crossroads’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Crossroads’ 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. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 81.1. 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
Self-reported obesity, 37%, sits within a few points of Prince Edward Island (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 Crossroads, a hospital is 5.5 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Crossroads’ own, not the region’s.
From Crossroads that is nearer than the 8.5 km of the typical town on Prince Edward Island, and the 3.7 km of 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.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Crossroads’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Prince Edward Island (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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Prince Edward Island (50% against 50%), while 19% call 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 Crossroads
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Stratford 5.9 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Charlottetown 9.0 km | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| North Shore 10 km | 7.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| East River, Part 1 11 km | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Vernon River 11 km | 15 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Cornwall 13 km | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Crossroads and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Vernon River is the furthest from care, 15 km to Crossroads’ 5.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Crossroads alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Crossroads
How is Crossroads’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Crossroads’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Crossroads?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Crossroads from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Crossroads is 7.4 km from a clinic and 5.2 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Crossroads?
For the health region that includes Crossroads, 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).