For health, Upper Mount Royal is ahead of 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 1.5 km from the average resident of Upper Mount Royal, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Upper Mount Royal a grade of A+, #29 of 474 in Alberta and #120 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Upper Mount Royal
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Upper Mount Royal is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Upper Mount Royal runs 1.5 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.7 more years (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 ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Upper Mount Royal is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Upper Mount Royal 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: #29 of 474 in Alberta and #120 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%
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 Upper Mount Royal’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.
Self-rated health beats Alberta: 57% very good or excellent, against 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
Mental health is no outlier: 54% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 1.5 km from the average home in Upper Mount Royal
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Upper Mount Royal’s own, not the region’s.
Upper Mount Royal is closer in 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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Upper Mount Royal’s, follows the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Upper Mount Royal’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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Upper Mount Royal comes 6th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,722 to 2,796 people, median 6.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 3 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 4 | Lee Ridge AB B+ | 2,722 | 1.2 km | 51% |
| 5 | Souris MB B− | 2,737 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 6 | Upper Mount Royal AB A+ | 2,758 | 1.5 km | 56% |
| 7 | Maria QC B− | 2,770 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 8 | Woodcroft AB B+ | 2,770 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Upper Mount Royal
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Mount Royal | 1.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Lower Mount Royal 0.6 km | 1.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Bankview 0.9 km | 0.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Mission 1.1 km | 1.0 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Beltline 1.2 km | 0.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Elbow Park 1.2 km | 2.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| South Calgary 1.4 km | 1.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Upper Mount Royal’s; read across for the hospital trip.
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.
- 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. 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Upper Mount Royal shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Upper Mount Royal
How is Upper Mount Royal’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Upper Mount Royal has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Upper Mount Royal?
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 Upper Mount Royal?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Upper Mount Royal’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Upper Mount Royal from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Upper Mount Royal is 0.8 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).