Photo: Kiyoteru Awaji · CC BY 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Glengarry’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.4 km from the average resident of Glengarry, about the norm of 3.7 km. Glengarry grades B for health, #289 of 474 in Alberta and #1,630 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Glengarry
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.4 out of 5, Glengarry sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 11 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Glengarry is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Glengarry 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: #289 of 474 in Alberta and #1,630 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 Glengarry: 3.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Glengarry’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Glengarry here: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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
Of the 5 health regions in Alberta, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.3 and a high of 83.0.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Glengarry’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
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
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Glengarry’s region’s dot is close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Glengarry’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (4) and half worse (4), around a median of 81.2.
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.
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
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Glengarry comes 18th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,040 to 3,137 people, median 5.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 16 | Brooklands MB B+ | 3,114 | 3.1 km | 52% |
| 17 | Luxton MB B+ | 3,047 | 3.4 km | 52% |
| 18 | Glengarry AB B | 3,087 | 3.4 km | 51% |
| 19 | Nutana Park SK B+ | 3,045 | 4.0 km | 49% |
| 20 | Lakeshore ON B | 3,127 | 4.6 km | 53% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Glengarry
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Glengarry | 3.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Northmount 0.8 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Killarney 0.8 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Rosslyn 1.5 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Delwood 1.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Lauderdale 1.7 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kildare 1.8 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Glengarry’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: Glengarry shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Glengarry
What is the life expectancy in Glengarry?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Glengarry’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Glengarry?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How is Glengarry’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Glengarry’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Glengarry from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Glengarry is 0.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).