Few places match Kincora for health: it beats 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Kincora live 4.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Kincora is A+, #101 of 474 in Alberta and #264 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Kincora
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Kincora is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Kincora 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
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 ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Kincora can reach 7.3 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Kincora 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: #101 of 474 in Alberta and #264 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
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.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Kincora’s own areas.
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
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.
From Kincora, a hospital is 4.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kincora’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, Kincora sits near the middle. 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
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Kincora’s region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Kincora belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.0 years, the trend 83.2. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 7, with 82.8 years in the middle.
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Kincora comes 24th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,167 to 7,411 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Cathedral Village SK B+ | 7,311 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 22 | Ranchlands AB A+ | 7,376 | 3.7 km | 56% |
| 23 | Whyte Ridge MB B+ | 7,299 | 4.0 km | 52% |
| 24 | Kincora AB A+ | 7,290 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 25 | Saint-Paul QC A− | 7,208 | 4.2 km | 56% |
| 26 | Blairmore Suburban Centre SK B+ | 7,411 | 4.2 km | 49% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Kincora
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kincora | 4.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Sherwood 1.2 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Sage Hill 1.4 km | 5.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Evanston 1.8 km | 5.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Nolan Hill 2.3 km | 3.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Hidden Valley 2.3 km | 3.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Hamptons 2.4 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Kincora’s; read across for the hospital trip.
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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Kincora’s own.
Questions about health in Kincora
How is Kincora’s 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 Kincora’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Kincora?
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 Kincora?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Kincora’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Kincora from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.9 km from the average resident of Kincora, 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).