Photo: Johntwrl · CC BY-SA 3.051% of adults around Holyrood rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.6 for a girl and 78.8 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Holyrood live 3.3 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Holyrood a grade of B, #287 of 474 in Alberta and #1,623 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Holyrood
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Holyrood has 13 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.1 km away. 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.
Holyrood 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: #287 of 474 in Alberta and #1,623 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 Holyrood: 3.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Holyrood, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Holyrood sits near the middle. 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
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Holyrood’s region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Holyrood’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Holyrood’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.
Self-rated health much as in Alberta: 52% to 54%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
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.
Holyrood is 15th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,256 to 3,355 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rankin Inlet NU D | 3,336 | 0.5 km | 39% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Virden MB B− | 3,322 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 13 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska QC A | 3,307 | 3.0 km | 61% |
| 14 | Bulyea Heights AB B | 3,264 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 15 | Holyrood AB B | 3,305 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 16 | Point Road MB B+ | 3,290 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 17 | Northmount AB B | 3,349 | 3.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Arviat NU D− | 3,330 | 216 km | 39% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Holyrood
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Holyrood | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ottewell 1.1 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Forest Heights 1.5 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bonnie Doon 1.6 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Riverdale 1.7 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| King Edward Park 2.0 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Capilano 2.6 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Holyrood’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Holyrood’s own.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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 Holyrood
How is Holyrood’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Holyrood’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Holyrood?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Holyrood’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Holyrood?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Holyrood from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.1 km from the average resident of Holyrood, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).