Health in Miscouche · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Miscouche’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.1, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Miscouche’s is long: 6.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Miscouche a grade of B.
Prince Edward Island: 51% · Shared with the rest of the Prince Edward Island health region: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Prince Edward Island: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Prince Edward Island: 12%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.3 · men 79.1
Nearest hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Health Grade
Miscouche 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 49% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (6.9 km)Better than 68% of Canadian towns
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.
For its deprivation
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Miscouche’s lies near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.6 years, and Miscouche’s region matches it closely with 81.2. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 81.1. 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.3%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.3%
Obese (self-reported)
37%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
23%
Flu shot in the past year
45%
Prince Edward Island
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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Miscouche: 6.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Miscouche, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
6.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
7.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
6.4 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Nothing unusual for Miscouche here: the typical town on Prince Edward Island is 8.5 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.1
more years expected at 65
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency2.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Miscouche’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Prince Edward Island: 50% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
50%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
50%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
19%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
86%
Prince Edward Island
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Miscouche
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
SummersideWellingtonKensington, Part 1KensingtonMalpeque BayMiscouche
The neighbours all sit in Miscouche’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Wellington live further from a hospital, at 21 km against 6.9 km in Miscouche.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Miscouche shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Miscouche
How is Miscouche’s 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 Miscouche’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Miscouche from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Miscouche live: 7.2 km to a clinic, 6.4 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Miscouche?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Miscouche?
There is no figure for Miscouche alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 2022/2024.
Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0