Health in Souris · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
51% of adults around Souris rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men. What sets Souris apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Souris grades B for health.
Prince Edward Island: 51% · Measured across 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
Picking up a prescription in Souris takes a trip of 34 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Souris 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Souris: 6.9 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Souris’ own, not the region’s.
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
34 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
That is close to the 8.5 km of the typical town on Prince Edward Island (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Souris goes.
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Souris’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Souris belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (5 of 10, median 81.1 years). Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $74,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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
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
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 37% of adults against 37% for 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.
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 instability2.7
Economic dependency2.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Souris’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
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
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
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Souris
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Souris and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Souris live nearer a hospital, at 0.7 km against 6.9 km in Souris.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Souris shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Souris
How is Souris’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Souris’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Souris from a hospital?
For everyday care, Souris’ residents are 34 km from a pharmacy and 7.2 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Souris?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Souris?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Souris’ health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.1 for men (2022/2024).
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