Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround O'Leary, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.3 and men at 79.1. For O'Leary itself the measure is access, and it lags: 6.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives O'Leary a grade of B, #5 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,799 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
O'Leary 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. Its place: #5 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,799 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, O'Leary’s, follows the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and O'Leary’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.6. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 5 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 81.1 years. A household income of about $74,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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.
The nearest hospital is 6.3 km from the average home in O'Leary
Straight-line distances from each part of O'Leary, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 8.5 km of the typical town on Prince Edward Island (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as O'Leary goes. The centre of population is 2.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 6.3 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.
Life expectancy in the region: 81.2 years
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where O'Leary’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Prince Edward Island (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
The region’s 50% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Prince Edward Island’s 50%, with 19% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
O'Leary is 22nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,841 to 2,915 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Black Diamond AB A+ | 2,910 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 20 | Bridgeport North ON A | 2,858 | 5.0 km | 53% |
| 21 | Paisley AB B | 2,897 | 5.9 km | 51% |
| 22 | O'Leary PE B | 2,878 | 6.3 km | 51% |
| 23 | Saint-Elzéar QC A− | 2,842 | 6.9 km | 59% |
| 24 | Leeming ON B− | 2,849 | 8.2 km | 53% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around O'Leary
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| O'Leary | 6.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| O'Leary 1.6 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Alberton 12 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Alberton 15 km | 0.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Central Prince 19 km | 22 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry O'Leary’s regional figures. Residents of Central Prince live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 6.3 km in O'Leary.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 O'Leary’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in O'Leary
How is O'Leary’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus O'Leary’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is O'Leary from a hospital?
Residents of O'Leary have a clinic 6.4 km away on average and a pharmacy 6.3 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is O'Leary?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in O'Leary?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.1 for men around O'Leary (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).