Around Caernarvon, 51% of adults call 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. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Caernarvon’s is long: 5.9 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Caernarvon a grade of B, #347 of 474 in Alberta and #1,764 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Caernarvon
Pharmacies on every corner
With 14 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.4 km off, Caernarvon is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Caernarvon 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: #347 of 474 in Alberta and #1,764 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 Caernarvon: 5.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Caernarvon, weighted by who lives there.
Caernarvon is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Caernarvon’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Caernarvon’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.4. 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 2nd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Caernarvon itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
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: 52% and 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Alberta).
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: Caernarvon comes 29th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,862 to 6,092 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowertown West ON A+ | 5,947 | 0.4 km | 56% |
| 2 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 27 | Cedarbrae AB A | 5,943 | 4.4 km | 56% |
| 28 | Crowsnest Pass AB B− | 6,011 | 5.0 km | 52% |
| 29 | Caernarvon AB B | 5,972 | 5.9 km | 51% |
| 30 | Val-David QC A+ | 5,920 | 6.7 km | 60% |
| 31 | Dunluce AB B | 6,079 | 7.1 km | 51% |
| 40 | Stettler County No. 6 AB C | 5,966 | 18 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Caernarvon
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Caernarvon 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
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Caernarvon shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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 Caernarvon
How far is Caernarvon from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Caernarvon is 0.4 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Caernarvon’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Caernarvon’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Caernarvon?
Women in Caernarvon’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Caernarvon?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).