Around Evansdale, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). What sets Evansdale apart within its region is distance, and at 4.1 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Evansdale is B, #306 of 474 in Alberta and #1,674 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Evansdale
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Evansdale’s neighbourhoods average 4.2 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 13 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.4 km off, Evansdale is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Evansdale 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: #306 of 474 in Alberta and #1,674 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 Evansdale, a hospital is 4.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Evansdale, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Evansdale goes. 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.
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
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 Evansdale’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Evansdale’s region comes out on the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Evansdale’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.
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.
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Evansdale comes 18th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,491 to 5,716 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Bankview AB A+ | 5,610 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 16 | Braeside AB A+ | 5,706 | 3.9 km | 56% |
| 17 | Greenboro West ON A | 5,597 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 18 | Evansdale AB B | 5,602 | 4.1 km | 51% |
| 19 | Crystallina Nera East AB B | 5,566 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 20 | Coral Springs AB A | 5,542 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 40 | Chertsey QC B | 5,678 | 30 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Evansdale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evansdale | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Northmount 1.0 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kildare 1.2 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kilkenny 1.3 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Belle Rive 1.4 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Eaux Claires 1.6 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Mayliewan 1.7 km | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
One health region covers Evansdale and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Evansdale alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
Questions about health in Evansdale
How is Evansdale’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Evansdale’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Evansdale?
For the health region that includes Evansdale, women can expect 83.6 years and men 78.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Evansdale?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Evansdale from a hospital?
For everyday care, Evansdale’s residents are 0.4 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).