Photo: KMW2700 from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Calder, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.6 km from the average resident of Calder, about the norm of 3.7 km. The Health grade for Calder is B, #295 of 474 in Alberta and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Calder
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Calder’s neighbourhoods average 4.9 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 15 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Calder is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Calder 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: #295 of 474 in Alberta and #1,646 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 3.6 km from the average home in Calder
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Calder’s own, not the region’s.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Calder sits near the middle. 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Calder’s own areas.
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
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Calder’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Calder’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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%)
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
Obesity tracks the province: 33% of adults here, 32% across Alberta.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Alberta: 52% to 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health reads like the rest of Alberta: 51% against 52%, and 24% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Calder is 16th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,155 to 4,285 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 3 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 14 | Ozerna AB B | 4,216 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 15 | Patterson AB A+ | 4,169 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 16 | Calder AB B | 4,221 | 3.6 km | 51% |
| 17 | Mayliewan AB B | 4,259 | 3.6 km | 51% |
| 18 | Red Lake ON C | 4,285 | 4.0 km | 44% |
| 40 | Simonds NB D | 4,263 | 21 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Calder
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calder | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kensington 0.7 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Carlisle 1.6 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Sherbrooke 1.6 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Athlone 1.7 km | 3.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Lauderdale 1.7 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Wellington 2.0 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Calder and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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 Calder’s own.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Calder
How is Calder’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Calder: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Calder?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Calder’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Calder?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Calder from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.9 km from the average resident of Calder, 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).