Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain51% of adults around Wellington rate their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.3 and men 79.1 (2022/2024). For Wellington itself the measure is access, and it lags: 21 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Wellington is B−.
What stands out about health in Wellington
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Wellington the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 19 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Wellington 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.
From Wellington, a hospital is 21 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wellington’s own, not the region’s.
Wellington is further out than the provincial norm of 8.5 km on Prince Edward Island, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Wellington’s lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Wellington’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.6. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 5 of them below it, a median of 81.1. Modest pay, about $74,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
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.
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 Wellington’s own areas.
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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is close to the province’s: 50% rate it very good or excellent, against 50% in Prince Edward Island, and 19% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Wellington
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wellington | 21 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Miscouche 12 km | 6.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Central Prince 14 km | 22 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Summerside 18 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Wellington from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Summerside is the closest to care, 2.4 km to Wellington’s 21 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Wellington’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wellington
How far is Wellington from a hospital?
A clinic is 5.4 km from the average resident of Wellington and a pharmacy 5.3 km, as the crow flies.
How is Wellington’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Wellington has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Wellington?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Wellington?
Women in Wellington’s region live to 83.3 on average and men to 79.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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).