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Health in Jackson Heights · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada

Around Jackson Heights, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent

Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.6, men 78.8, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital sits 2.8 km from the average resident of Jackson Heights, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Jackson Heights a grade of B, #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 of 2,583 Canadian towns.

81.2years, life expectancy (region)2.8 kmto a hospital, residents’ average12%of adults smoke (region)
Very good or excellent health
51%
adults, age-standardised
Alberta: 53% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Edmonton Zone
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Alberta: 17%
Smokers
12%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
Alberta: 11%
Life expectancy
81.2
at birth, 2022/2024
women 83.6 · men 78.8
Nearest hospital
2.8 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about health in Jackson Heights

4.1pharmacies within 3 km of a typical home

Pharmacies on every corner

A typical home in Jackson Heights has 4.1 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.1 km away. Getting care ↓

Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.

Health Grade

Jackson Heights 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.

Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.8 km)Better than 81% of Canadian towns

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: #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 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 care

The nearest hospital is 2.8 km from the average home in Jackson Heights

Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Jackson Heights’ own, not the region’s.

Hospital
2.8 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
5.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.1 km
residents’ average distance
4.1 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces

That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Jackson Heights goes. 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.

For its deprivation

Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under

Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Jackson Heights’ lies near the line.

646872768084882345Eastern Urban Zone: 80.2 (women 82.1, men 78.2)Eastern Rural Zone: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.4)Central Zone: 79.0 (women 80.5, men 77.4)Western Zone: 78.5 (women 81.1, men 76.0)Labrador-Grenfell Zone: 77.1 (women 79.2, men 74.6)Prince Edward Island: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.1)Zone 1 - Western: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.6)Zone 2 - Northern: 79.3 (women 81.5, men 77.1)Zone 3 - Eastern: 78.8 (women 80.9, men 76.6)Zone 4 - Central: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.3)Zone 1 (Moncton area): 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Zone 2 (Saint John area): 79.3 (women 81.1, men 77.3)Zone 3 (Fredericton area): 80.1 (women 81.9, men 78.2)Zone 4 (Edmundston area): 79.1 (women 80.7, men 77.3)Zone 5 (Campbellton area): 79.0 (women 82.3, men 75.3)Zone 6 (Bathurst area): 80.2 (women 82.7, men 77.8)Zone 7 (Miramichi area): 78.9 (women 82.0, men 75.7)Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent: 81.7 (women 83.1, men 80.3)Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: 81.8 (women 83.2, men 80.4)Région de la Capitale-Nationale: 82.9 (women 84.7, men 81.1)Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec: 81.6 (women 83.3, men 79.9)Région de l'Estrie: 82.9 (women 84.8, men 81.0)Région de Montréal: 83.4 (women 85.5, men 81.2)Région de l'Outaouais: 80.7 (women 82.2, men 79.1)Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 79.5 (women 81.6, men 77.6)Région de la Côte-Nord: 79.4 (women 82.1, men 77.0)Région du Nord-du-Québec: 78.1 (women 78.5, men 77.6)Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: 79.9 (women 81.6, men 78.2)Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches: 82.8 (women 84.4, men 81.3)Région de Laval: 84.1 (women 85.7, men 82.4)Région de Lanaudière: 82.0 (women 83.7, men 80.3)Région des Laurentides: 82.2 (women 83.7, men 80.8)Région de la Montérégie: 82.5 (women 84.2, men 80.8)Région du Nunavik: 65.2 (women 70.3, men 60.7)Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James: 76.8 (women 79.1, men 73.1)The District of Algoma Health Unit: 77.9 (women 80.4, men 75.6)Brant County Health Unit: 80.4 (women 82.6, men 78.2)Durham Regional Health Unit: 82.6 (women 84.7, men 80.5)Grey Bruce Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.6, men 78.9)Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit: 79.6 (women 81.9, men 77.6)Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 79.0)Halton Regional Health Unit: 84.9 (women 86.5, men 83.2)City of Hamilton Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.5, men 79.0)Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit: 79.8 (women 81.8, men 77.8)Chatham-Kent Health Unit: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.3)Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: 81.8 (women 83.9, men 79.5)Lambton Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.2, men 77.8)Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.2)Middlesex-London Health Unit: 81.9 (women 84.2, men 79.6)Niagara Regional Area Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.6, men 77.6)Northwestern Health Unit: 73.7 (women 75.2, men 72.3)Huron Perth Health Unit: 81.7 (women 83.7, men 79.7)City of Ottawa Health Unit: 83.7 (women 85.7, men 81.6)Peel Regional Health Unit: 85.3 (women 87.2, men 83.3)Peterborough County—City Health Unit: 80.5 (women 82.8, men 78.1)Porcupine Health Unit: 77.3 (women 80.1, men 74.6)Renfrew County and District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.7)The Eastern Ontario Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.9)Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit: 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Sudbury and District Health Unit: 79.1 (women 82.0, men 76.3)Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 76.5 (women 79.0, men 74.1)Timiskaming Health Unit: 77.0 (women 80.3, men 73.6)Waterloo Health Unit: 82.8 (women 84.9, men 80.7)Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: 82.4 (women 84.5, men 80.2)Windsor-Essex County Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.5, men 79.2)York Regional Health Unit: 86.3 (women 87.9, men 84.6)Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit: 80.6 (women 83.0, men 78.2)City of Toronto Health Unit: 84.7 (women 87.2, men 82.0)Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.5)Prairie Mountain Health Region: 78.8 (women 81.2, men 76.6)Interlake-Eastern Health Region: 78.5 (women 81.3, men 76.0)Northern Health Region: 68.5 (women 70.5, men 66.9)Southern Health Region: 80.7 (women 82.9, men 78.7)Far North: 70.0 (women 72.8, men 67.3)North Central West: 76.6 (women 79.8, men 73.7)North Central East: 77.0 (women 79.6, men 74.5)Saskatoon: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.2)South West: 79.9 (women 82.5, men 77.5)South East: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.5)Regina: 80.2 (women 82.3, men 78.0)South Zone: 78.7 (women 80.6, men 76.8)Calgary Zone: 83.0 (women 85.0, men 80.9)Central Zone: 79.1 (women 81.7, men 76.6)Edmonton Zone: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Zone: 78.3 (women 80.9, men 76.1)East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: 80.5 (women 82.7, men 78.1)Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.8, men 76.5)Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area: 81.0 (women 84.1, men 78.2)Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area: 78.8 (women 81.8, men 76.0)Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area: 80.0 (women 82.9, men 77.2)Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area: 84.4 (women 86.6, men 82.1)Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area: 83.2 (women 85.8, men 80.7)Richmond Health Service Delivery Area: 86.8 (women 89.0, men 84.4)Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area: 83.3 (women 86.5, men 80.2)North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area: 84.3 (women 86.3, men 82.3)South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 82.7 (women 84.9, men 80.5)Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.8 (women 82.6, men 77.1)North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.3, men 76.9)Northwest Health Service Delivery Area: 77.0 (women 79.2, men 75.0)Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area: 76.6 (women 79.5, men 74.0)Northeast Health Service Delivery Area: 76.9 (women 79.5, men 74.4)Jackson Heights’ region 81.2
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)

At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Jackson Heights 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.

Conditions and habits

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

High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
13%

Habits · 2023/2024

Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
17%
Alberta

Obesity is close to the province’s level, 33% of adults against 32% for 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.

The wider area

How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy

Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.

81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 5 regions in Alberta

Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024

Calgary Zone83.0
Edmonton Zone81.2
Central Zone79.1
South Zone78.7
North Zone78.3

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

Residential instability2.2
Economic dependency2.6
Ethno-cultural composition4.8
Situational vulnerability2.6

The index is context and never graded: it describes Jackson Heights’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.

Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.

Health survey

About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 52% and 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

Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
57%
Satisfied with life
82%
Alberta

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.

Towns its size

Among 40 towns its size, Jackson Heights is 14th nearest a hospital

Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,144 to 4,261 people, median 4.4 km.

#TownPeopleHospitalVery good health
1Claresholm AB A+4,2420.8 km56%
2La Pocatière QC A4,2060.9 km60%
3Sunalta AB A+4,1510.9 km56%
12Métabetchouan--Lac-à-la-Croix QC A+4,2302.6 km66%
13Killarney AB B+4,1652.6 km51%
14Jackson Heights AB B4,1952.8 km51%
15Ozerna AB B4,2162.8 km51%
16Patterson AB A+4,1692.9 km56%
40Napierville QC A−4,18719 km55%

The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.

Neighbours

Health in the places around Jackson Heights

Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.

Kiniski Gardens: Health Grade B+Greenview: Health Grade B+Larkspur: Health Grade BMinchau: Health Grade B+Hillview: Health Grade B+Weinlos: Health Grade B+Kiniski GardensGreenviewLarkspurMinchauHillviewWeinlosJackson Heights
ABCD
TownHospitalVery good healthLife exp.Health
Jackson Heights2.8 km51%81.2B
Kiniski Gardens
1.1 km		2.5 km51%81.2B+
Greenview
1.6 km		1.6 km51%81.2B+
Larkspur
1.8 km		3.6 km51%81.2B
Minchau
2.2 km		1.5 km51%81.2B+
Hillview
2.3 km		0.6 km51%81.2B+
Weinlos
2.7 km		1.1 km51%81.2B+

One health region covers Jackson Heights and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
  • Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
  • 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.
  • Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Jackson Heights shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
  • 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.

Questions about health in Jackson Heights

How is Jackson Heights’ Health Grade worked out?

Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Jackson Heights has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.

What is the life expectancy in Jackson Heights?

Statistics Canada publishes it for Jackson Heights’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).

How healthy is Jackson Heights?

The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.

How far is Jackson Heights from a hospital?

Beyond the hospital, the average home in Jackson Heights is 1.1 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).