Few places match Penbrooke Meadows 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 Penbrooke Meadows apart within its region is distance, and at 4.4 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Penbrooke Meadows is A, #116 of 474 in Alberta and #290 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Penbrooke Meadows
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Penbrooke Meadows is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Penbrooke Meadows’ 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
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
A typical home in Penbrooke Meadows has 10 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Penbrooke Meadows 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: #116 of 474 in Alberta and #290 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%)
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
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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
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
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Alberta, 4.7 years ahead of the last at 78.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Penbrooke Meadows’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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%
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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 54% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Penbrooke Meadows, a hospital is 4.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Penbrooke Meadows, 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, Penbrooke Meadows 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Penbrooke Meadows’ region is near the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Penbrooke Meadows’ 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. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 7 of them below it, a median of 82.8.
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, Penbrooke Meadows is 21st nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,849 to 10,150 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-des-Fées QC B+ | 10,075 | 0.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | Vincent ON B | 10,011 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 3 | Bridle Path-Sunnybrook-York Mills ON A | 9,909 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 19 | Acadia AB A+ | 9,950 | 3.4 km | 56% |
| 20 | Devonshire ON B | 9,852 | 3.5 km | 52% |
| 21 | Penbrooke Meadows AB A | 10,001 | 4.4 km | 56% |
| 22 | Temiskaming Shores ON C+ | 10,144 | 4.5 km | 54% |
| 23 | Springbank Hill AB A | 9,913 | 4.9 km | 56% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Penbrooke Meadows
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penbrooke Meadows | 4.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Applewood Park 1.2 km | 5.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Forest Heights 1.7 km | 3.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Marlborough Park 2.0 km | 3.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Forest Lawn 2.0 km | 4.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Abbeydale 2.1 km | 4.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Marlborough 2.5 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Around Penbrooke Meadows 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.
- 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.
- 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 Penbrooke Meadows’ own.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Penbrooke Meadows
How is Penbrooke Meadows’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Penbrooke Meadows’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Penbrooke Meadows?
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 Penbrooke Meadows?
There is no figure for Penbrooke Meadows alone; its health region’s is 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Penbrooke Meadows from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.9 km from the average resident of Penbrooke Meadows, 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).