Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Kinkora’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.1 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Kinkora’s is long: 14 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Kinkora a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Kinkora
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Kinkora’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. 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.
Kinkora 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 14 km from the average home in Kinkora
Straight-line distances from each part of Kinkora, weighted by who lives there.
Kinkora 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Kinkora’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Kinkora belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.6. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (5 of 10), with a median of 81.1. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $74,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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 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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Kinkora itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Prince Edward Island: 50% and 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 close to the province’s: 50% rate it very good or excellent, against 50% in Prince Edward Island, and 19% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Kinkora
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kinkora | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Kensington 9.7 km | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kensington, Part 1 9.8 km | 8.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| New London 13 km | 21 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Summerside 14 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Crapaud, Part 1 16 km | 26 km | 51% | 81.2 | C+ |
| Malpeque Bay 17 km | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Kinkora’s regional figures. Crapaud, Part 1 is the furthest from care, 26 km to Kinkora’s 14 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kinkora shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Kinkora
How far is Kinkora from a hospital?
A clinic is 11 km from the average resident of Kinkora and a pharmacy 11 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Kinkora?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Kinkora?
Women in Kinkora’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Kinkora’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kinkora has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).