Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Life expectancy around Coaldale is 78.7 years, 2.8 less than for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Alberta as a whole is at 53%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Coaldale is well placed: 1.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Coaldale grades B− for health, #377 of 474 in Alberta and #1,946 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Coaldale
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Coaldale: 1.1 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Coaldale grades B− 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: #377 of 474 in Alberta and #1,946 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.
Getting to hospital from Coaldale: 1.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Coaldale, weighted by who lives there.
Coaldale 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.
1.2 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Coaldale’s region’s dot is under the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Coaldale’s region, at 3.3, should live about 79.9 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 78.7. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 81.2. Judged by income, around $83,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.3% diabetes
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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
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
This region is 4th longest-lived of 5 in Alberta, on a scale from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Coaldale’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 53% and 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 close to the province’s: 53% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Coaldale comes 6th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,451 to 9,852 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | South Cambie BC A+ | 9,846 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 4 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 5 | Northeast SK B+ | 9,670 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 6 | Coaldale AB B− | 9,644 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 7 | Manor Park ON A+ | 9,491 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 8 | Olds AB C+ | 9,653 | 1.3 km | 52% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Coaldale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coaldale | 1.2 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Lethbridge 16 km | 3.8 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Lethbridge County 18 km | 11 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Coaldale’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Lethbridge County live further from a hospital, at 11 km against 1.2 km in Coaldale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Coaldale shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
Questions about health in Coaldale
What is the life expectancy in Coaldale?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Coaldale’s health region only: 80.6 years for women and 76.8 for men (2022/2024).
How is Coaldale’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Coaldale has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Coaldale from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Coaldale is 13 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Coaldale?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. 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).