Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0Spruce Cliff scores better for health than 97% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.6 km from the average resident of Spruce Cliff, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Spruce Cliff a grade of A+, #32 of 474 in Alberta and #130 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Spruce Cliff
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Spruce Cliff is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Spruce Cliff, 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 ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Spruce Cliff can reach 12 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Spruce Cliff 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: #32 of 474 in Alberta and #130 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%
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Spruce Cliff’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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (54% against 52%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 1.6 km from the average home in Spruce Cliff
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Spruce Cliff’s own, not the region’s.
Spruce Cliff is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Spruce Cliff’s, follows the trend.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.2 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Spruce Cliff belongs to reaches 83.0. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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.
Spruce Cliff is 8th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,561 to 6,822 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 2 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 6 | Whitmore Park SK B+ | 6,603 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 7 | Charlemagne QC A− | 6,695 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 8 | Spruce Cliff AB A+ | 6,691 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 9 | Corman ON B | 6,566 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 10 | Riverdale West ON B | 6,804 | 1.9 km | 53% |
| 40 | Barrington NS D− | 6,720 | 36 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Spruce Cliff
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Cliff | 1.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Wildwood 1.1 km | 1.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Rosscarrock 1.1 km | 2.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| West Hillhurst 1.5 km | 1.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Killarney/Glengarry 1.5 km | 1.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Westgate 1.8 km | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Sunalta 2.3 km | 0.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
One health region covers Spruce Cliff and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Spruce Cliff alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in Spruce Cliff
How is Spruce Cliff’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Spruce Cliff’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Spruce Cliff?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Spruce Cliff?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men around Spruce Cliff (2022/2024).
How far is Spruce Cliff from a hospital?
For everyday care, Spruce Cliff’s residents are 0.8 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).