Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Miminegash, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.3 for a girl and 79.1 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Miminegash apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 13 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Miminegash a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Miminegash
A long way to hospital
Residents of Miminegash live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 20 km from the average home in Miminegash, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Miminegash’s neighbourhoods average 4.5 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Miminegash 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 Miminegash, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Miminegash, weighted by who lives there.
Miminegash 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.
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 Miminegash 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Miminegash’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Miminegash’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.6. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 5 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.1 years. Modest pay, about $74,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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
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.
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 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 Miminegash
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Miminegash and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Alberton is the closest to care, 0.5 km to Miminegash’s 13 km.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Miminegash alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Miminegash
How far is Miminegash from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Miminegash is 13 km from a clinic and 20 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Miminegash?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Miminegash?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Miminegash’s health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.1 for men (2022/2024).
How is Miminegash’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Miminegash’s own distance to care, 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).