Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Allendale’s health region
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.2 km from the average resident of Allendale, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Allendale is B+, #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Allendale
Pharmacies close at hand
With 22 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Allendale is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Allendale 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: #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 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 Allendale: 2.2 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Allendale’s own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Allendale goes. 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Allendale’s, follows the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Allendale’s region matches it closely with 81.2. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 4 above and 4 below; their median is 81.2 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, sits within a few points of Alberta (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
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 2nd.
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 Allendale’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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (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 (51% against 52%), while 24% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Allendale is 10th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,906 to 2,994 people, median 5.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview AB C− | 2,918 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Black Diamond AB A+ | 2,910 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Moosomin SK C− | 2,906 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 8 | Sunnyside AB A+ | 2,976 | 1.8 km | 56% |
| 9 | Mayfair SK B+ | 2,927 | 1.9 km | 49% |
| 10 | Allendale AB B+ | 2,951 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 11 | Varsity View MB B+ | 2,985 | 2.4 km | 52% |
| 12 | Holliston SK B+ | 2,963 | 2.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Markstay-Warren ON D | 2,990 | 32 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Allendale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allendale | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Pleasantview 1.2 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Queen Alexandra 1.3 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| McKernan 1.3 km | 0.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Malmo Plains 1.8 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Belgravia 2.0 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Empire Park 2.0 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Every place around Allendale shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Allendale itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Allendale
How is Allendale’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Allendale has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Allendale from a hospital?
Residents of Allendale have a pharmacy 0.9 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Allendale?
There is no figure for Allendale alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Allendale?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).