Photo: CnekYT · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Westgate beats 96% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. Measured from where Westgate’s residents live, a hospital is 2.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The Health grade for Westgate is A+, #63 of 474 in Alberta and #196 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Westgate
A region that smokes less
Smoking is rarer around Westgate than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Westgate 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 ↓
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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 8.4 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Westgate is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Westgate 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: #63 of 474 in Alberta and #196 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%)
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Alberta: 27%, the province 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Westgate’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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Alberta (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
The region’s 54% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Westgate: 2.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Westgate’s own, not the region’s.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Westgate sits near the middle. 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.
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; Westgate’s dot is marked, close to the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Westgate’s region fits it, 83.0 years at 2.3 against the line’s 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.
Westgate is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,091 to 3,189 people, median 7.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Ainslie Wood East ON B | 3,112 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | La Loche SK | 3,124 | 1.0 km | – |
| 8 | Gilbert ON B | 3,181 | 2.3 km | 53% |
| 9 | Paspébiac QC B− | 3,132 | 2.4 km | 56% |
| 10 | Westgate AB A+ | 3,139 | 2.6 km | 56% |
| 11 | Queensway Terrace North ON A | 3,160 | 3.0 km | 56% |
| 12 | Brooklands MB B+ | 3,114 | 3.1 km | 52% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Westgate
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westgate | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Rosscarrock 0.9 km | 2.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Wildwood 1.6 km | 1.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Glenbrook 1.6 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Strathcona Park 1.7 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Spruce Cliff 1.8 km | 1.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Signal Hill 1.9 km | 3.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Westgate and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Westgate itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Westgate
How healthy is Westgate?
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 Westgate?
There is no figure for Westgate alone; its health region’s is 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Westgate from a hospital?
Residents of Westgate have a pharmacy 1.0 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Westgate’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Westgate’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).