Photo: WabbitWanderer from London, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Souris’ health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.3 and men 79.1 (2022/2024). What sets Souris apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.7 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Souris a grade of B+.
What stands out about health in Souris
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 37 km from the average home in Souris, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Souris at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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.
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.
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 to hospital from Souris: 0.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Souris’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 8.5 km for the typical town on Prince Edward Island and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Souris is on the near side.
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
Regional life expectancy on Prince Edward Island, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Souris’ region is near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Souris’ region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (5 of 10, median 81.1 years). 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.
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
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.
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
Asked about their mental health, 50% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Prince Edward Island it was 50%, and 19% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Souris | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Souris 9.6 km | 6.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Souris and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Souris live further from a hospital, at 6.9 km against 0.7 km in Souris.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Souris itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Souris
How is Souris’ 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 Souris’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Souris from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Souris live: 0.8 km to a clinic, 37 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Souris?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Souris?
There is no figure for Souris alone; its health region’s is 83.3 for women and 79.1 for men in 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).