Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainCamrose’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.4 years: life expectancy 79.1
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Alberta as a whole is at 53%. For Camrose itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.5 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Camrose is C+, #404 of 474 in Alberta and #2,138 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Camrose
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Camrose than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Camrose: 0.8 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 4.7 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.6 km off, Camrose is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Camrose grades C+ 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: #404 of 474 in Alberta and #2,138 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 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.9%
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 39%, self-reported obesity is above 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.
Getting to hospital from Camrose: 1.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Camrose’s own, not the region’s.
Camrose 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Camrose’s region’s dot is under the line.
Where residents average 3.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 79.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Camrose belongs to trails at 79.1. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.2 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $85,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 5 regions in Alberta, from 78.3 to 83.0 years, this one is 3rd.
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 Camrose’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 51% to 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (54% against 52%), while 22% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Camrose is 11th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 20,240 to 21,386 people, median 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Upper Lachine QC A | 21,130 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 3 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 9 | Black Creek ON A | 21,307 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 10 | Thornlea ON A | 20,872 | 1.4 km | 51% |
| 11 | Camrose AB C+ | 20,800 | 1.5 km | 52% |
| 12 | Oakdale-Beverley Heights ON A | 21,386 | 1.5 km | 50% |
| 13 | Rosedale-Moore Park ON A | 20,268 | 1.5 km | 50% |
| 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 Camrose
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camrose | 1.5 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Camrose County 12 km | 17 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Camrose’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Camrose County live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 1.5 km in Camrose.
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.
- 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.
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Camrose 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.
Questions about health in Camrose
How is Camrose’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Camrose has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Camrose?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Camrose’s health region only: 81.7 years for women and 76.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Camrose from a hospital?
Residents of Camrose have a pharmacy 1.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Camrose?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).