Photo: Calgary Reviews from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Health in McKenzie Towne 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. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of McKenzie Towne live 4.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives McKenzie Towne a grade of A+, #101 of 474 in Alberta and #264 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in McKenzie Towne
Fewer smokers
Around McKenzie Towne, only 6.2% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
McKenzie Towne’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 ↓
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 McKenzie Towne can reach 6.7 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.7 km off. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
McKenzie Towne 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.
High blood pressure for 17% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.7%
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes McKenzie Towne’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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%
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
Asked about their mental health, 54% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 23% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from McKenzie Towne: 4.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is McKenzie Towne’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of McKenzie Towne travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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 McKenzie Towne’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region McKenzie Towne belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.0 years, the trend 83.2. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: McKenzie Towne comes 27th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,303 to 18,251 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Downtown Yonge East ON A | 18,251 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 3 | Schmidtville NS B+ | 18,105 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 25 | Listowel ON B | 18,168 | 3.8 km | 45% |
| 26 | L'Ancienne-Lorette QC A+ | 17,876 | 3.9 km | 62% |
| 27 | McKenzie Towne AB A+ | 17,757 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 28 | Saint-Michel QC A+ | 17,303 | 4.4 km | 62% |
| 29 | Port Elgin ON C+ | 18,167 | 4.8 km | 48% |
| 40 | Lake Country BC B− | 17,637 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around McKenzie Towne
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McKenzie Towne | 4.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| New Brighton 1.2 km | 4.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| McKenzie Lake 1.5 km | 4.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Copperfield 2.4 km | 4.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Auburn Bay 2.7 km | 1.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Deer Run 3.2 km | 3.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Mahogany 3.6 km | 2.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Same region, same survey: McKenzie Towne’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 McKenzie Towne itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in McKenzie Towne
How healthy is McKenzie Towne?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in McKenzie Towne?
For the health region that includes McKenzie Towne, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How is McKenzie Towne’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so McKenzie Towne has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is McKenzie Towne from a hospital?
Residents of McKenzie Towne have a pharmacy 0.7 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).