Health in Garrison Woods beats 97% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. For Garrison Woods itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.5 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Garrison Woods grades A+ for health, #29 of 474 in Alberta and #120 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Garrison Woods
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Garrison Woods than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Garrison Woods’ region sits 1.5 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
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 ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Garrison Woods is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.3 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Garrison Woods 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: #29 of 474 in Alberta and #120 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 Garrison Woods’ 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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Alberta (54%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (54% to 52%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Garrison Woods: 1.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Garrison Woods’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Garrison Woods is on the near side. 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Garrison Woods’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.3, the expected figure is 83.2 years, and Garrison Woods’ region matches it closely with 83.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 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.
Garrison Woods is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,091 to 3,189 people, median 7.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Ainslie Wood East ON B | 3,112 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | La Loche SK | 3,124 | 1.0 km | – |
| 4 | Lower Mount Royal AB A+ | 3,136 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 5 | Trois-Pistoles QC A | 3,123 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 6 | Garrison Woods AB A+ | 3,138 | 1.5 km | 56% |
| 7 | Brookside AB B+ | 3,173 | 1.5 km | 51% |
| 8 | Gilbert ON B | 3,181 | 2.3 km | 53% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Garrison Woods
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Garrison Woods | 1.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Altadore 0.7 km | 2.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Richmond 1.3 km | 0.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| South Calgary 1.4 km | 1.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Currie Barracks 1.5 km | 0.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Killarney/Glengarry 2.0 km | 1.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Bankview 2.2 km | 0.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Around Garrison Woods the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Garrison Woods itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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.
Questions about health in Garrison Woods
How healthy is Garrison Woods?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Garrison Woods?
Women in Garrison Woods’ region live to 85.0 on average and men to 80.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Garrison Woods’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Garrison Woods’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Garrison Woods from a hospital?
Residents of Garrison Woods have a pharmacy 0.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).