Photo: Bythelake10 · CC BY-SA 4.0Few places match Chestermere for health: it beats 90% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. What sets Chestermere apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 12 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Chestermere a grade of A, #164 of 474 in Alberta and #628 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chestermere
Fewer smokers
Around Chestermere, only 6.2% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Chestermere’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 12 km. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Chestermere’s region sits 1.5 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 21.7 years ahead (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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Chestermere 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: #164 of 474 in Alberta and #628 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%)
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
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.
Getting to hospital from Chestermere: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chestermere’s own, not the region’s.
Chestermere is further out 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Chestermere’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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (54% against 52%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Chestermere’s lies near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Chestermere’s region fits it, 83.0 years at 2.3 against the line’s 83.2. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Chestermere is 37th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 29,907 to 33,482 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre QC A | 31,113 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 35 | Sainte-Julie QC A− | 30,981 | 11 km | 55% |
| 36 | Chambly QC A− | 31,870 | 12 km | 55% |
| 37 | Chestermere AB A | 31,671 | 12 km | 56% |
| 38 | Elmira ON A− | 31,382 | 12 km | 53% |
| 39 | Portobello South ON A | 29,960 | 13 km | 56% |
| 40 | Rockland ON C | 30,375 | 15 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chestermere
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chestermere | 12 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Abbeydale 7.4 km | 4.5 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Applewood Park 7.5 km | 5.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Penbrooke Meadows 8.7 km | 4.4 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Monterey Park 8.9 km | 3.9 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Marlborough Park 9.0 km | 3.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Pineridge 9.2 km | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
The neighbours all sit in Chestermere’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Pineridge is the closest to care, 2.6 km to Chestermere’s 12 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Chestermere’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Chestermere
How healthy is Chestermere?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
How far is Chestermere from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of Chestermere, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Chestermere?
For the health region that includes Chestermere, women can expect 85.0 years and men 80.9 (2022/2024).
How is Chestermere’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Chestermere: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).