51% of adults around Hillview rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.6 km from the average resident of Hillview, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Hillview grades B+ for health, #175 of 474 in Alberta and #1,275 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hillview
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Hillview: 0.6 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Hillview can reach 6.2 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.3 km off. Getting care ↓
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.
Hillview 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: #175 of 474 in Alberta and #1,275 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 Hillview, a hospital is 0.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hillview’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Hillview is on the near side. 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
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Hillview’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Hillview belongs to reaches 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.
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
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.
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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Hillview’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.
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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 51% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 24% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Hillview is 1st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,368 to 5,568 people, median 5.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 40 | Gananoque ON C | 5,568 | 28 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Hillview
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nothing in the regional columns separates Hillview from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Hillview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Hillview
How is Hillview’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Hillview’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Hillview from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Hillview is 1.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Hillview?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Hillview (2022/2024).
How healthy is Hillview?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share 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).