Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.051% of adults around Avonmore rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.6, men 78.8, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.6 km from the average resident of Avonmore, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Avonmore a grade of B, #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Avonmore
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Avonmore has 9.3 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. 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.
Avonmore 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: #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 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 Avonmore, a hospital is 4.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Avonmore, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Avonmore is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Avonmore’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Avonmore’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (4) and half worse (4), around a median of 81.2.
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 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Alberta: 33%, 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.
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
Ranked 2nd of 5 in Alberta: the regions span 78.3 to 83.0 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Avonmore’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.
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
The region’s 51% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
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: Avonmore comes 13th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,927 to 3,018 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Buchanan ON B | 3,006 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 2 | Wawa ON C− | 2,943 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 3 | Saint-Marc-des-Carrières QC A+ | 2,961 | 1.3 km | 62% |
| 11 | Bainbridge BC A | 3,015 | 3.1 km | 48% |
| 12 | Lauderdale AB B | 2,954 | 3.4 km | 51% |
| 13 | Avonmore AB B | 2,971 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 14 | Suder Greens AB B | 2,928 | 4.7 km | 51% |
| 15 | Carpenter ON B | 2,941 | 4.9 km | 53% |
| 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 Avonmore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avonmore | 4.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| King Edward Park 1.5 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Hazeldean 1.5 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ritchie 1.9 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Bonnie Doon 2.1 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Holyrood 2.8 km | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Tweddle Place 3.1 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Avonmore’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Avonmore shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Avonmore
How is Avonmore’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Avonmore has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Avonmore?
Women in Avonmore’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Avonmore?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Avonmore from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Avonmore is 0.8 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).