Photo: Neil and Kathy Carey from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Malpeque Bay’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.1. For Malpeque Bay itself the measure is access, and it lags: 14 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Malpeque Bay is B−.
What stands out about health in Malpeque Bay
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Malpeque Bay the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Malpeque Bay 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.
From Malpeque Bay, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Malpeque Bay’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town on Prince Edward Island and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Malpeque Bay is on the far side.
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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Malpeque Bay’s, follows the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.6 years; Malpeque Bay’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (5 of 10), with a median of 81.1. Households here earn around $74,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 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
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.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Malpeque Bay’s 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.
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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 50% very good or excellent against 50% for Prince Edward Island; stress is a daily matter for 19%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Malpeque Bay
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Malpeque Bay | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Kensington, Part 1 7.6 km | 8.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kensington 7.6 km | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| New London 10 km | 21 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Summerside 15 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Kinkora 17 km | 14 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Miscouche 18 km | 6.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Malpeque Bay’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Summerside live nearer a hospital, at 2.4 km against 14 km in Malpeque Bay.
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. 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Malpeque Bay’s own.
Questions about health in Malpeque Bay
How far is Malpeque Bay from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Malpeque Bay live: 8.7 km to a clinic, 8.7 km to a pharmacy.
How is Malpeque Bay’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Malpeque Bay’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Malpeque Bay?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Malpeque Bay?
There is no figure for Malpeque Bay 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).