51% of adults around Keswick rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Measured from where Keswick’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 9.2 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Keswick is B, #370 of 474 in Alberta and #1,872 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Keswick
Fewer households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Keswick’s neighbourhoods average 1.0 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Keswick 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: #370 of 474 in Alberta and #1,872 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Keswick 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Keswick’s, follows the trend.
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Keswick 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.
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
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.
The nearest hospital is 9.2 km from the average home in Keswick
Straight-line distances from each part of Keswick, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Keswick travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
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
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Keswick is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,885 to 4,032 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | Leila North MB B+ | 3,966 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Fort Macleod AB B | 3,945 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 23 | Morris-Turnberry ON B | 4,028 | 8.2 km | 45% |
| 24 | Livingston AB A | 3,929 | 8.2 km | 56% |
| 25 | Keswick AB B | 3,957 | 9.2 km | 51% |
| 26 | New Richmond QC C+ | 3,947 | 11 km | 56% |
| 27 | Electoral Area F, East Kootenay BC B | 3,893 | 11 km | 57% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Keswick
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Keswick | 9.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Glenridding Heights 1.7 km | 7.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ambleside 1.8 km | 7.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Windermere 2.0 km | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| South Terwillegar 3.6 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Chappelle 3.9 km | 7.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Haddow 4.3 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Keswick and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Keswick shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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 Keswick
How far is Keswick from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Keswick is 1.2 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Keswick’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 Keswick’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Keswick?
Women in Keswick’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Keswick?
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.
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).