For health, Willow Park is ahead of 95% of Canadian towns
In the health survey, 56% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than Alberta’s 53%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Willow Park live 4.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Willow Park is A, #123 of 474 in Alberta and #306 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Willow Park
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Willow Park is well below the typical town’s; 6.2% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Willow Park 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 ↓
Self-rated health runs high
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 on every corner
The average resident of Willow Park can reach 11 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. 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.
Willow Park 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%
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
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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Alberta, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Willow Park itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
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 reads like the rest of Alberta: 54% against 52%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The nearest hospital is 4.7 km from the average home in Willow Park
Straight-line distances from each part of Willow Park, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Willow Park is on the far side. 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Willow Park’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.2 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Willow Park belongs to reaches 83.0. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 7 of 10; their median is 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.
Willow Park is 20th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,719 to 7,066 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 2 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Lowertown East ON A+ | 6,996 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 18 | Tamarack AB B | 6,860 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 19 | Meadowood MB B+ | 6,991 | 4.7 km | 52% |
| 20 | Willow Park AB A | 6,891 | 4.7 km | 56% |
| 21 | Hope ON A | 6,997 | 4.8 km | 51% |
| 22 | Gimli MB C− | 6,914 | 5.0 km | 50% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Willow Park
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willow Park | 4.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Acadia 1.5 km | 3.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Lake Bonavista 2.1 km | 4.2 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Haysboro 2.4 km | 2.1 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Southwood 2.5 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Fairview 2.5 km | 2.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Canyon Meadows 2.7 km | 4.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Willow Park from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Willow Park shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- 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 Willow Park
How healthy is Willow Park?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Willow Park?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.0 for women, 80.9 for men around Willow Park (2022/2024).
How is Willow Park’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Willow Park’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Willow Park from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Willow Park 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).