Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFew places match Evergreen for health: it beats 95% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. What sets Evergreen apart within its region is distance, and at 4.2 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Evergreen a grade of A, #110 of 474 in Alberta and #278 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Evergreen
Smoking runs low
Smoking is rarer around Evergreen than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Evergreen’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 ↓
Upbeat about their health
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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 5.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Evergreen is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Evergreen 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: #110 of 474 in Alberta and #278 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%)
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
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.
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Evergreen’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
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%
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 reads like the rest of Alberta: 54% against 52%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Evergreen: 4.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Evergreen, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Evergreen is on the far side. 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.
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 Evergreen’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Evergreen’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. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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, Evergreen is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,541 to 20,415 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.2 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% |
| 25 | Heart Lake South ON A− | 19,573 | 4.0 km | 49% |
| 26 | Purpleville ON A | 19,918 | 4.2 km | 51% |
| 27 | Evergreen AB A | 19,988 | 4.2 km | 56% |
| 28 | Niagara-on-the-Lake ON C+ | 20,080 | 4.4 km | 49% |
| 29 | Tuscany AB A | 19,986 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 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 Evergreen
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen | 4.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Millrise 2.0 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Bridlewood 2.1 km | 3.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Fish Creek Park 2.2 km | 4.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Shawnessy 2.6 km | 1.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Somerset 2.9 km | 1.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Woodbine 2.9 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
One health region covers Evergreen 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
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Evergreen’s own.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Evergreen
How healthy is Evergreen?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Evergreen?
For the health region that includes Evergreen, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How is Evergreen’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Evergreen’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Evergreen from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of Evergreen, 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).