Photo: Tracklan2 · CC0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Griesbach’s health region
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 5.2 km from the average resident of Griesbach, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Griesbach a grade of B, #334 of 474 in Alberta and #1,730 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Griesbach
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Griesbach can reach 16 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Griesbach 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: #334 of 474 in Alberta and #1,730 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 5.2 km from the average home in Griesbach
Straight-line distances from each part of Griesbach, weighted by who lives there.
From Griesbach that is further 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Griesbach’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Griesbach’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. 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.
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
Obesity tracks the province: 33% of adults here, 32% across 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.
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
Ranked 2nd of 5 in Alberta: the regions span 78.3 to 83.0 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Griesbach’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.
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
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.
Griesbach is 28th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,517 to 6,762 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 26 | Abbeydale AB A | 6,561 | 4.5 km | 56% |
| 27 | Canyon Meadows AB A | 6,751 | 4.5 km | 56% |
| 28 | Griesbach AB B | 6,640 | 5.2 km | 51% |
| 29 | Rivers Edge / Castlemore Crossing ON A− | 6,577 | 5.5 km | 49% |
| 30 | Kings County, Subdivision D NS C− | 6,517 | 7.1 km | 44% |
| 40 | Barrington NS D− | 6,720 | 36 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Griesbach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Griesbach | 5.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Beaumaris 0.7 km | 6.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Lorelei 1.4 km | 6.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Caernarvon 1.6 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Eaux Claires 1.7 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Carlisle 1.8 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Evansdale 1.8 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Griesbach and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Griesbach itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Griesbach
How is Griesbach’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Griesbach: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Griesbach from a hospital?
Residents of Griesbach have a pharmacy 0.5 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Griesbach?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Griesbach (2022/2024).
How healthy is Griesbach?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).