Photo: Cold, Indrid · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Kensington, 51% of adults call 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. For Kensington itself the measure is access, and it lags: 11 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Kensington grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Kensington
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Kensington the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kensington 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 11 km from the average home in Kensington
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kensington’s own, not the region’s.
Kensington is near the provincial norm, 8.5 km for the typical town on Prince Edward Island, with 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Kensington’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Kensington’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.6. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 5 of the 10, around a median of 81.1 years. The towns here bring in about $74,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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
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.
Life expectancy in the region: 81.2 years
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 Kensington’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
Neither ahead nor behind Prince Edward Island on mental health (50% to 50%), the region has 19% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Kensington
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kensington | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kensington, Part 1 0.8 km | 8.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Malpeque Bay 7.6 km | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| New London 7.8 km | 21 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Kinkora 9.7 km | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Summerside 12 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Miscouche 17 km | 6.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Kensington and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of New London live further from a hospital, at 21 km against 11 km in Kensington.
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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kensington itself is the trip to care.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Kensington
How is Kensington’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Kensington’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Kensington from a hospital?
For everyday care, Kensington’s residents are 0.5 km from a pharmacy and 0.6 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Kensington?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Kensington?
There is no figure for Kensington 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).