Health in Skyview Ranch beats 92% 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, and Skyview Ranch’s is long: 9.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Skyview Ranch a grade of A, #161 of 474 in Alberta and #469 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Skyview Ranch
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Skyview Ranch is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Skyview Ranch, 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 ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Skyview Ranch live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.0 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Upbeat about their health
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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Skyview Ranch 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: #161 of 474 in Alberta and #469 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%)
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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Skyview Ranch’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Skyview Ranch, a hospital is 9.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Skyview Ranch’s own, not the region’s.
Skyview Ranch is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
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
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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Skyview Ranch’s dot is marked, close to the line.
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 Skyview Ranch’s region matches it closely with 83.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Skyview Ranch comes 32nd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,783 to 14,355 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 30 | Tiny ON B+ | 14,195 | 8.5 km | 54% |
| 31 | Convent Glen - Orleans Woods ON A | 14,118 | 8.6 km | 56% |
| 32 | Skyview Ranch AB A | 14,061 | 9.3 km | 56% |
| 33 | Rideaucrest - Davidson Heights ON A | 13,998 | 9.5 km | 56% |
| 34 | Chapel Hill South ON A | 14,278 | 9.6 km | 56% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Skyview Ranch
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skyview Ranch | 9.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Redstone 1.3 km | 10 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Cityscape 1.6 km | 6.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Saddle Ridge 3.4 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Martindale 4.6 km | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Taradale 4.8 km | 5.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Castleridge 5.9 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
The neighbours all sit in Skyview Ranch’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Castleridge is the closest to care, 3.5 km to Skyview Ranch’s 9.3 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Skyview Ranch itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Skyview Ranch
How is Skyview Ranch’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Skyview Ranch has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Skyview Ranch?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Skyview Ranch?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men around Skyview Ranch (2022/2024).
How far is Skyview Ranch from a hospital?
Residents of Skyview Ranch 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).