51% of adults around Beacon Heights rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. Measured from where Beacon Heights’ residents live, a hospital is 3.2 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The Health grade for Beacon Heights is B, #285 of 474 in Alberta and #1,612 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beacon Heights
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.6 out of 5, Beacon Heights sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Beacon Heights has 14 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Beacon Heights 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: #285 of 474 in Alberta and #1,612 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.
The nearest hospital is 3.2 km from the average home in Beacon Heights
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beacon Heights’ own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Beacon Heights is ordinary: 3.1 km is the typical figure in Alberta, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Beacon Heights’ 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 long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Beacon Heights’ region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Beacon Heights belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. 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.
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Beacon Heights comes 18th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,309 to 4,469 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Golden BC B+ | 4,433 | 0.7 km | 57% |
| 2 | Roslyn MB B+ | 4,411 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 16 | Bells Corners West ON A | 4,422 | 3.1 km | 56% |
| 17 | Ormsby Place AB B | 4,412 | 3.1 km | 51% |
| 18 | Beacon Heights AB B | 4,389 | 3.2 km | 51% |
| 19 | Inglewood AB A+ | 4,380 | 3.5 km | 56% |
| 20 | Deer Ridge AB A+ | 4,454 | 3.8 km | 56% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beacon Heights
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beacon Heights | 3.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Beverly Heights 0.6 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Newton 1.0 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Rundle Heights 1.4 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Overlanders 1.6 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Homesteader 2.0 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Highlands 2.0 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Around Beacon Heights the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Beacon Heights’ own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Beacon Heights
How is Beacon Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Beacon Heights’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Beacon Heights?
For the health region that includes Beacon Heights, women can expect 83.6 years and men 78.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Beacon Heights?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Beacon Heights from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.5 km from the average resident of Beacon Heights, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).