Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Few places match Cityscape for health: it beats 94% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. What sets Cityscape apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.3 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Cityscape a grade of A, #152 of 474 in Alberta and #361 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cityscape
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Cityscape than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Cityscape’s region sits 1.5 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.8 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 57%. Health survey ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Cityscape has 6.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.4 km away. 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.
Cityscape grades A 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: #152 of 474 in Alberta and #361 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (17%) and diabetes (6.7%)
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
At 27%, self-reported obesity is below Alberta’s 32%.
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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Alberta, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
No region of the 5 in Alberta lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.3, a gap of 4.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Cityscape’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health beats Alberta: 57% very good or excellent, against 54%
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
The region’s 54% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Cityscape: 6.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cityscape, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Cityscape travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Cityscape’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Cityscape’s region, at 2.3, should live about 83.2 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 83.0, near enough. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 82.8 years.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Cityscape is 20th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,510 to 12,029 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 7.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weyburn SK C− | 11,871 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Selkirk MB C | 11,570 | 1.9 km | 50% |
| 3 | South Cameron ON B+ | 11,804 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 18 | Ebenezer West ON A− | 11,510 | 5.7 km | 49% |
| 19 | Fletchers Meadow North ON A− | 11,870 | 6.1 km | 49% |
| 20 | Cityscape AB A | 11,782 | 6.3 km | 56% |
| 21 | Tay ON B+ | 11,968 | 8.0 km | 54% |
| 22 | Provinceton BC A | 11,625 | 8.1 km | 50% |
| 40 | Mont-Tremblant QC A− | 11,879 | 25 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cityscape
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cityscape | 6.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Skyview Ranch 1.6 km | 9.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Saddle Ridge 2.1 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Redstone 2.7 km | 10 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Martindale 3.0 km | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Taradale 3.4 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Castleridge 4.3 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Cityscape’s regional figures. Redstone is the furthest from care, 10 km to Cityscape’s 6.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Cityscape’s own.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Cityscape
How healthy is Cityscape?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How is Cityscape’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Cityscape’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Cityscape?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Cityscape’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Cityscape from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.4 km from the average resident of Cityscape, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).