Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0For health, Pineridge 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%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Pineridge live 2.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Pineridge grades A+ for health, #63 of 474 in Alberta and #196 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pineridge
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Pineridge is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Pineridge, 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 Pineridge can reach 15 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.
Pineridge 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: #63 of 474 in Alberta and #196 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
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.
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
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 Pineridge’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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Alberta (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
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 54% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Alberta’s 52%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Pineridge: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pineridge’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, Pineridge sits near the middle. 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Pineridge’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Pineridge’s region is a typical case: 83.0 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.2. 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.
Pineridge is 18th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,913 to 10,204 people, median 3.0 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 | Maple Leaf ON A | 10,040 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 16 | Portland Estates NS B+ | 10,164 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 17 | Citadel AB A+ | 10,196 | 2.6 km | 56% |
| 18 | Pineridge AB A+ | 10,062 | 2.6 km | 56% |
| 19 | Amherst NS C− | 10,072 | 2.9 km | 42% |
| 20 | Notre-Dame-de-Grâces QC A | 10,204 | 3.0 km | 55% |
| 40 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands ON C+ | 10,185 | 26 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pineridge
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pineridge | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Monterey Park 1.1 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Temple 1.3 km | 2.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Marlborough Park 1.6 km | 3.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Rundle 2.0 km | 1.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Abbeydale 2.3 km | 4.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Marlborough 2.4 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Pineridge and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Pineridge shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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 Pineridge
How healthy is Pineridge?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Pineridge?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Pineridge’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Pineridge from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Pineridge is 0.5 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Pineridge’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 Pineridge’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).