Health in Morell · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
The nearest hospital is 26 km from the average home in Morell
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Prince Edward Island, 51% against 51%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 26 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Morell grades B− for health.
Prince Edward Island: 51% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Prince Edward Island health region
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Picking up a prescription in Morell takes a trip of 26 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. 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.
Health Grade
Morell 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 (26 km)Better than 14% 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Morell: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 26 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Morell’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
26 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
26 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
26 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
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town on Prince Edward Island and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Morell is on the far side.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Morell’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
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 Morell’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. 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.
Conditions and habits
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
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
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.
The wider area
One region, one figure: 81.2 years of life
Regional life expectancy on Prince Edward Island, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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 instability2.0
Economic dependency3.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.6
Situational vulnerability3.6
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Morell’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.
Health survey
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
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
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Morell
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Every place around Morell shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Morell shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Morell
How far is Morell from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Morell live: 26 km to a clinic, 26 km to a pharmacy.
How is Morell’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Morell’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Morell?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Morell?
There is no figure for Morell alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 2022/2024.
Photo: Neil and Kathy Carey from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0