Around Edgemont, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Edgemont’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 6.8 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Edgemont a grade of B, #360 of 474 in Alberta and #1,790 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Edgemont
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.0 out of 5, Edgemont sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Edgemont 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: #360 of 474 in Alberta and #1,790 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 5 in Alberta, on a scale from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Edgemont’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Edgemont’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Edgemont’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is near Alberta’s 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.
The nearest hospital is 6.8 km from the average home in Edgemont
Straight-line distances from each part of Edgemont, weighted by who lives there.
Edgemont 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.
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
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
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: Edgemont comes 24th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,974 to 5,138 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% |
| 22 | Kildonan Drive MB B+ | 5,063 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 23 | Webber Greens AB B | 5,035 | 4.3 km | 51% |
| 24 | Edgemont AB B | 5,059 | 6.8 km | 51% |
| 25 | Electoral Area C, North Okanagan BC B | 5,029 | 7.5 km | 52% |
| 26 | Annapolis County, Subdivision B NS C− | 5,086 | 8.1 km | 44% |
| 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 Edgemont
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edgemont | 6.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| The Hamptons 1.4 km | 5.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Jamieson Place 2.5 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Cameron Heights 3.1 km | 5.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Granville 3.4 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ormsby Place 3.6 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Glastonbury 3.8 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Edgemont and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Ormsby Place is the closest to care, 3.1 km to Edgemont’s 6.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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 Edgemont’s own.
Questions about health in Edgemont
How is Edgemont’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Edgemont’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Edgemont from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 2.0 km from the average resident of Edgemont, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Edgemont?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Edgemont (2022/2024).
How healthy is Edgemont?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).