Around Canossa, 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. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.1 km from the average resident of Canossa, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Canossa is B, #363 of 474 in Alberta and #1,801 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Canossa
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Canossa can reach 7.8 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.3 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Canossa 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: #363 of 474 in Alberta and #1,801 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 Canossa: 7.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Canossa’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Canossa is on the far side. 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; Canossa’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Canossa’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.4. 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, 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
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Canossa’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 51% very good or excellent to 52%; 24% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Canossa is 21st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,190 to 3,300 people, median 5.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 19 | Lake City BC A | 3,240 | 3.8 km | 48% |
| 20 | Rosslyn AB B | 3,242 | 4.1 km | 51% |
| 21 | Canossa AB B | 3,246 | 7.1 km | 51% |
| 22 | Adelaide-Metcalfe ON B+ | 3,196 | 7.5 km | 52% |
| 23 | Stoke QC A | 3,272 | 7.7 km | 57% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Canossa
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Canossa’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Canossa 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Canossa
How is Canossa’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Canossa has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Canossa from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Canossa is 1.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Canossa?
Women in Canossa’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Canossa?
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).