For health, Coach Hill is ahead of 96% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole manages 53%. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.4 km from the average resident of Coach Hill, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Coach Hill a grade of A+, #86 of 474 in Alberta and #235 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Coach Hill
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Coach Hill is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Coach Hill runs 1.5 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.7 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.8 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 57% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Coach Hill can reach 5.5 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 2.0 km off. 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.
Coach Hill 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: #86 of 474 in Alberta and #235 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.7% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 27%, trails Alberta (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
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Coach Hill’s 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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Alberta (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 Coach Hill: 3.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Coach Hill’s own, not the region’s.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Coach Hill sits near the middle. The clinic list is thin in Alberta: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Coach Hill’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Coach Hill’s region is a typical case: 83.0 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.2. 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, Coach Hill is 14th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,328 to 3,439 people, median 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rankin Inlet NU D | 3,336 | 0.5 km | 39% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 12 | Riverdale East ON B | 3,416 | 2.5 km | 53% |
| 13 | Ramsay Heights AB B | 3,434 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 14 | Coach Hill AB A+ | 3,383 | 3.4 km | 56% |
| 15 | Placentia NL D | 3,374 | 3.6 km | 44% |
| 16 | Northmount AB B | 3,349 | 3.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Arviat NU D− | 3,330 | 216 km | 39% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Coach Hill
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coach Hill | 3.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Patterson 0.7 km | 2.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Strathcona Park 1.3 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| West Springs 1.6 km | 5.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Montgomery 1.8 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Aspen Woods 2.4 km | 5.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Westgate 2.5 km | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Every place around Coach Hill shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Coach Hill shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Coach Hill
How is Coach Hill’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Coach Hill’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Coach Hill?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Coach Hill?
For the health region that includes Coach Hill, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How far is Coach Hill from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Coach Hill is 2.0 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).