Few places match Cranston for health: it beats 96% 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 Cranston apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Cranston a grade of A+, #44 of 474 in Alberta and #162 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cranston
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Cranston is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Cranston’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 ↓
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Cranston’s neighbourhoods average 1.4 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cranston 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: #44 of 474 in Alberta and #162 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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 27% of adults against 32% for Alberta.
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 across the 5 health regions in Alberta
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
Top of the 5 regions in Alberta: the lowest figure is 78.3, 4.7 years below the highest.
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; Cranston’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.
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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 54% very good or excellent to 52%; 23% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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; Cranston’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Cranston belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.0 years, the trend 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.
From Cranston, a hospital is 2.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cranston, weighted by who lives there.
Cranston is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Cranston is 19th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,543 to 20,549 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 3 | Longue-Pointe QC A | 20,337 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 17 | Yonge-Doris ON A | 20,298 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 18 | Vinegar Hill ON A | 19,543 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 19 | Cranston AB A+ | 20,055 | 2.1 km | 56% |
| 20 | Port Alberni BC B− | 19,671 | 2.2 km | 47% |
| 21 | Lower Sackville NS B+ | 20,171 | 2.4 km | 51% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cranston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranston | 2.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Auburn Bay 1.5 km | 1.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Mahogany 3.4 km | 2.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Chaparral 3.5 km | 2.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Legacy 3.6 km | 5.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| McKenzie Towne 3.7 km | 4.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| McKenzie Lake 3.9 km | 4.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
One health region covers Cranston and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Cranston’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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cranston
How healthy is Cranston?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Cranston?
For the health region that includes Cranston, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How far is Cranston from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.9 km from the average resident of Cranston, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Cranston’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cranston: 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).