For health, Fairview is ahead of 96% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Alberta’s 53%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.5 km from the average resident of Fairview, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Fairview grades A+ for health, #59 of 474 in Alberta and #183 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Fairview
A region that smokes less
Smoking is rarer around Fairview than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Fairview, a child can expect 1.5 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 4.8 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (57% as answered). Health survey ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Fairview can reach 10 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Fairview 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: #59 of 474 in Alberta and #183 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
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, 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Fairview’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
More people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 57% to 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (54% against 52%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Fairview, a hospital is 2.5 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fairview’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Fairview here: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Fairview’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Fairview’s region is a typical case: 83.0 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.2. 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, Fairview is 16th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,823 to 3,987 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Park SK A− | 3,827 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | Leila North MB B+ | 3,966 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 14 | Ainslie Wood West ON B | 3,917 | 1.9 km | 53% |
| 15 | Rosscarrock AB A+ | 3,862 | 2.3 km | 56% |
| 16 | Fairview AB A+ | 3,909 | 2.5 km | 56% |
| 17 | Normanview Residents Group SK B+ | 3,916 | 2.6 km | 49% |
| 18 | Fraser AB B | 3,973 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Fairview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairview | 2.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Acadia 1.0 km | 3.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Kingsland 1.2 km | 1.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Haysboro 1.8 km | 2.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Willow Park 2.5 km | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Windsor Park 2.7 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Riverbend 3.3 km | 5.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Fairview and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Riverbend live further from a hospital, at 5.9 km against 2.5 km in Fairview.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fairview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Fairview
How is Fairview’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Fairview: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Fairview?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Fairview?
For the health region that includes Fairview, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How far is Fairview from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Fairview is 0.5 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).