51% of adults around Larkspur rate their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.6 km from the average resident of Larkspur, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Larkspur a grade of B, #295 of 474 in Alberta and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Larkspur
Pharmacies on every corner
With 5.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.5 km off, Larkspur is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Larkspur 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: #295 of 474 in Alberta and #1,646 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 Larkspur, a hospital is 3.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Larkspur, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Larkspur travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. The clinic list is thin in Alberta: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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 long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Larkspur’s, follows the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Larkspur’s region matches it closely with 81.2. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (4) and half worse (4), around a median of 81.2.
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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
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
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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 2nd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Larkspur 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.
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
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, Larkspur is 17th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,368 to 5,568 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 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% |
| 15 | Mandalay West MB B+ | 5,423 | 3.0 km | 52% |
| 16 | Riverbend MB B+ | 5,453 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 17 | Larkspur AB B | 5,472 | 3.6 km | 51% |
| 18 | Crystallina Nera East AB B | 5,566 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 19 | Coral Springs AB A | 5,542 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 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 Larkspur
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Larkspur | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Wild Rose 1.2 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kiniski Gardens 1.3 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Tamarack 1.4 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Jackson Heights 1.8 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Silver Berry 1.8 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Maple 2.1 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Larkspur and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Larkspur itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Larkspur
What is the life expectancy in Larkspur?
There is no figure for Larkspur alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Larkspur?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How is Larkspur’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 Larkspur’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Larkspur from a hospital?
Residents of Larkspur have a pharmacy 0.5 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).