Photo: Larry from Charlottetown, PEI, Canada · CC BY 2.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Stratford’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.3 and men to 79.1, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). For Stratford itself the measure is access: 4.5 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Stratford is B, #3 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,725 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stratford
Fewer households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Stratford’s neighbourhoods average 1.6 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. 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.
Stratford 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: #3 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,725 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.
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 Stratford’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Stratford’s region’s dot is close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.6 years; Stratford’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 5 of 10; their median is 81.1 years. Its towns’ household income, about $74,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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
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.
From Stratford, a hospital is 4.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Stratford, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Stratford are closer than most of the province: the typical town on Prince Edward Island is 8.5 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Prince Edward Island (50% against 50%), while 19% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Stratford comes 25th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,924 to 13,388 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Durand ON B+ | 13,338 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 2 | Corso Italia-Davenport ON A | 13,215 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 3 | Lloydminster (Part) SK C | 13,137 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 23 | Thornhill Woods ON A | 13,237 | 3.9 km | 51% |
| 24 | New Brighton AB A | 13,048 | 4.3 km | 56% |
| 25 | Stratford PE B | 13,152 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 26 | Huntington Hills AB A | 13,184 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 27 | Walker AB B | 13,388 | 4.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Sainte-Julienne QC B | 12,990 | 21 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stratford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stratford | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Charlottetown 5.8 km | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Crossroads 5.9 km | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Cornwall 8.3 km | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| North Shore 13 km | 7.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Miltonvale Park 15 km | 11 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| West River 15 km | 15 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Same region, same survey: Stratford’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. West River is the furthest from care, 15 km to Stratford’s 4.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Stratford itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Stratford
How is Stratford’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Stratford’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Stratford?
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 Stratford?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.3 for women, 79.1 for men around Stratford (2022/2024).
How far is Stratford from a hospital?
For everyday care, Stratford’s residents are 1.5 km from a pharmacy and 3.7 km from a clinic on average.
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).