Health in Eckville · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Eckville’s health region live to 79.1 on average, 2.4 years short of the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Alberta: 52% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 53%. What sets Eckville apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 20 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Eckville a grade of C−.
Residents of Eckville live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (20 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Around Eckville, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Eckville, a pharmacy is 20 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Eckville 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.
Very good or excellent health (52%)Better than 52% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 27% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.1)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (20 km)Better than 24% of Canadian towns
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.
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 care
Getting to hospital from Eckville: 20 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Eckville’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
20 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
131 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
20 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Eckville that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.9% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
8.9%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
21%
Alberta
More adults report obesity than across Alberta: 39%, 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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Eckville’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 3.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 79.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Eckville belongs to trails at 79.1. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $85,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
79.1
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 5 regions in Alberta
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Calgary Zone83.0
Edmonton Zone81.2
Central Zone79.1
South Zone78.7
North Zone78.3
Of the 5 health regions in Alberta, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.3 and a high of 83.0.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.9
Economic dependency4.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability3.6
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Eckville’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Alberta: 51% very good or excellent, against 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
86%
Alberta
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 54%, the province 52% (Alberta).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Eckville shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Eckville
How is Eckville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Eckville has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Eckville from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Eckville is 20 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Eckville?
There is no figure for Eckville alone; its health region’s is 81.7 for women and 76.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Eckville?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.