Photo: Johntwrl · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Capilano’s health region
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 3.0 km from the average resident of Capilano, about the norm of 3.7 km. The Health grade for Capilano is B, #278 of 474 in Alberta and #1,598 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Capilano
Plenty of pharmacies
With 12 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Capilano is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Capilano 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: #278 of 474 in Alberta and #1,598 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 Capilano, a hospital is 3.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Capilano, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Capilano 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Capilano’s region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Capilano’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 is close to the province’s level, 33% of adults against 32% for 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Alberta, where life expectancy runs from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Capilano’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (51% against 52%), while 24% call most days stressful.
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: Capilano comes 20th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,969 to 5,129 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Altona MB B | 4,989 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Central Business District SK A− | 4,987 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 18 | Huntington ON B | 5,024 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 19 | Twin Brooks AB B | 5,102 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 20 | Capilano AB B | 5,046 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 21 | Montréal-Est QC A | 5,112 | 3.6 km | 54% |
| 22 | Kildonan Drive MB B+ | 5,063 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Capilano
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capilano | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Gold Bar 1.1 km | 4.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Forest Heights 1.6 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Highlands 1.9 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Ottewell 2.2 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Virginia Park 2.2 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Beverly Heights 2.3 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Around Capilano 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
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Capilano’s own.
Questions about health in Capilano
How is Capilano’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Capilano’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Capilano?
Women in Capilano’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Capilano?
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 Capilano from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of Capilano, 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).