Photo: Dennis G. Jarvis · CC BY-SA 2.051% of adults around Three Rivers 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. Measured from where Three Rivers’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 5.6 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Three Rivers a grade of B, #4 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,773 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Three Rivers 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: #4 of 12 on Prince Edward Island and #1,773 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 close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Three Rivers’ region is near the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.8 would be expected to reach 81.6 years, and Three Rivers’ region is close, at 81.2. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 81.1. 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Prince Edward Island: 37%, the province 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.
From Three Rivers, a hospital is 5.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Three Rivers’ 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, Three Rivers 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Three Rivers’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
Neither ahead nor behind Prince Edward Island on mental health (50% to 50%), the region has 19% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Three Rivers is 27th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,157 to 9,488 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Danforth ON A | 9,364 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 3 | Old East York ON A | 9,175 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 25 | Mount Royale NS B+ | 9,340 | 5.0 km | 51% |
| 26 | Sulphur Springs ON B | 9,404 | 5.1 km | 53% |
| 27 | Three Rivers PE B | 9,322 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 28 | Riverbend AB A | 9,193 | 5.9 km | 56% |
| 29 | Vankleek Hill ON C+ | 9,321 | 7.0 km | 49% |
| 40 | Saint-Apollinaire QC B+ | 9,218 | 22 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Three Rivers
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Three Rivers | 5.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Murray River, Part 1 16 km | 15 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
Same region, same survey: Three Rivers’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Murray River, Part 1 live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 5.6 km in Three Rivers.
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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Three Rivers itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Three Rivers
How healthy is Three Rivers?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Three Rivers from a hospital?
Residents of Three Rivers have a clinic 5.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.5 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Three Rivers?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Three Rivers’ health region only: 83.3 years for women and 79.1 for men (2022/2024).
How is Three Rivers’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Three Rivers: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).