Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0Coalhurst’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.8 years: life expectancy 78.7
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 Coalhurst’s is long: 9.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Coalhurst grades B− for health, #389 of 474 in Alberta and #2,083 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Coalhurst
Far from a hospital
Distance is Coalhurst’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 9.6 km. 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.
Coalhurst 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: #389 of 474 in Alberta and #2,083 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.
From Coalhurst, a hospital is 9.8 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Coalhurst’s own, not the region’s.
From Coalhurst that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
The region lives 1.2 years less than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Coalhurst’s region’s dot is under the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 3.3, Coalhurst’s region’s 78.7 years sit under the line’s 79.9. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 81.2. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $83,000, 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.3%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 39% of adults against 32% for Alberta.
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.
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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 4th of the 5.
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 Coalhurst’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.
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 no outlier: 53% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Coalhurst comes 26th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,190 to 3,298 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 24 | Stoke QC A | 3,272 | 7.7 km | 57% |
| 25 | Val-Morin QC A | 3,226 | 9.8 km | 60% |
| 26 | Coalhurst AB B− | 3,244 | 9.8 km | 52% |
| 27 | Adstock QC A− | 3,203 | 12 km | 59% |
| 28 | North Cypress-Langford MB C | 3,234 | 13 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Coalhurst
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coalhurst | 9.8 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Lethbridge 8.5 km | 3.8 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Lethbridge County 15 km | 11 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
| Nobleford 18 km | 20 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
| Picture Butte 18 km | 0.7 km | 52% | 78.7 | B |
Same region, same survey: Coalhurst’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Nobleford live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 9.8 km in Coalhurst.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Coalhurst shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Coalhurst
How is Coalhurst’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Coalhurst’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Coalhurst?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.6 for women, 76.8 for men around Coalhurst (2022/2024).
How far is Coalhurst from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Coalhurst is 5.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Coalhurst?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).