Photo: Alamaraine · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Tuscany is ahead of 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. What sets Tuscany apart within its region is distance, and at 4.6 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Tuscany is A, #123 of 474 in Alberta and #306 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Tuscany
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Tuscany is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Tuscany, 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
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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 5.2 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Tuscany is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Tuscany 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: #123 of 474 in Alberta and #306 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.
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 Tuscany’s own areas.
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%)
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.
The nearest hospital is 4.6 km from the average home in Tuscany
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Tuscany’s own, not the region’s.
From Tuscany that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Tuscany’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.2 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Tuscany belongs to reaches 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.
Tuscany is 29th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 19,541 to 20,415 people, median 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 3 | Longue-Pointe QC A | 20,337 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 27 | Evergreen AB A | 19,988 | 4.2 km | 56% |
| 28 | Niagara-on-the-Lake ON C+ | 20,080 | 4.4 km | 49% |
| 29 | Tuscany AB A | 19,986 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 30 | Kemptville ON B− | 19,733 | 4.9 km | 51% |
| 31 | Mount Pleasant Village ON A− | 19,719 | 5.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Tuscany
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tuscany | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Rocky Ridge 2.0 km | 2.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Scenic Acres 2.2 km | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Royal Oak 2.9 km | 1.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Arbour Lake 3.3 km | 2.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Rocky View County 4.0 km | 13 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Valley Ridge 4.2 km | 8.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
Only the hospital column is local here: Tuscany and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Rocky View County is the furthest from care, 13 km to Tuscany’s 4.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Tuscany shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Tuscany
How healthy is Tuscany?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Tuscany?
There is no figure for Tuscany alone; its health region’s is 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Tuscany’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Tuscany: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Tuscany from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Tuscany is 0.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).