Taradale scores better for health than 94% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. For Taradale itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Taradale a grade of A, #144 of 474 in Alberta and #339 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Taradale
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Taradale than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Taradale’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 ↓
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 close at hand
With 6.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Taradale is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Taradale 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: #144 of 474 in Alberta and #339 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.7% diabetes
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Taradale’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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 54% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Taradale, a hospital is 5.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Taradale’s own, not the region’s.
Taradale 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Taradale’s region comes out on the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Taradale’s region is a typical case: 83.0 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.2. 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Taradale is 36th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,494 to 18,446 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% |
| 34 | Greater Napanee ON B+ | 18,016 | 5.0 km | 53% |
| 35 | Fraser Heights BC A | 17,688 | 5.6 km | 50% |
| 36 | Taradale AB A | 17,911 | 5.7 km | 56% |
| 37 | Sainte-Thérèse-de-Lisieux QC A+ | 17,558 | 6.6 km | 62% |
| 38 | Fallingbrook ON A | 17,836 | 13 km | 56% |
| 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 Taradale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taradale | 5.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Saddle Ridge 1.4 km | 6.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Martindale 1.9 km | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Coral Springs 2.1 km | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Falconridge 2.2 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Castleridge 2.6 km | 3.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Cityscape 3.4 km | 6.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Taradale’s regional figures.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Taradale alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
Questions about health in Taradale
How is Taradale’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Taradale’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Taradale?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Taradale?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men around Taradale (2022/2024).
How far is Taradale from a hospital?
For everyday care, Taradale’s residents are 0.7 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).