Health in O'Leary · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
51% of adults around O'Leary rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 2022/2024. For O'Leary itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for O'Leary is B+.
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
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places O'Leary at 4.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
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.
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 (0.7 km)Better than 97% 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.
The wider area
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.
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 instability5.0
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition3.5
Situational vulnerability4.1
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.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; O'Leary’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.6 years; O'Leary’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. It outlives 5 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.1 years. The towns here bring in about $74,000 a household, below the typical region, while living longer than it; that is why income, which correlates at just 0.14 with life expectancy across regions, isn’t the measure.
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
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
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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 0.7 km from the average home in O'Leary
Straight-line distances from each part of O'Leary, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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, O'Leary is on the near side.
The neighbours all sit in O'Leary’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. O'Leary is the furthest from care, 6.3 km to O'Leary’s 0.7 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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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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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.
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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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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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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.
Questions about health in O'Leary
How is O'Leary’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and O'Leary’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is O'Leary from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in O'Leary live: 0.7 km to a clinic, 0.5 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is O'Leary?
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 O'Leary?
There is no figure for O'Leary 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