Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Greenfield’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Greenfield is well placed: 1.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Greenfield is B+, #222 of 474 in Alberta and #1,459 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Greenfield
Pharmacies close at hand
With 13 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Greenfield is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Greenfield 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: #222 of 474 in Alberta and #1,459 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.8 km from the average home in Greenfield
Straight-line distances from each part of Greenfield, weighted by who lives there.
From Greenfield that is nearer than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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 close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Greenfield’s region shows close to the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Greenfield’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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Alberta: 33%, 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
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Greenfield itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Greenfield comes 6th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,657 to 3,767 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 4 | Industrial Sector A and Keith ON B | 3,723 | 1.5 km | 53% |
| 5 | Dixie ON A− | 3,749 | 1.6 km | 49% |
| 6 | Greenfield AB B+ | 3,710 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 7 | North Glenora AB B+ | 3,693 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 8 | Killarney MB C+ | 3,708 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 40 | Powassan ON D | 3,657 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Greenfield
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Greenfield | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Sweet Grass 0.5 km | 1.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Royal Gardens 1.1 km | 2.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Blue Quill 1.1 km | 1.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Duggan 1.2 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Westbrook Estates 1.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Ermineskin 1.8 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
One health region covers Greenfield 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Greenfield shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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 Greenfield
How is Greenfield’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 Greenfield’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Greenfield from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Greenfield is 0.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Greenfield?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Greenfield (2022/2024).
How healthy is Greenfield?
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.
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).