Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Laurel’s health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Laurel live 3.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Laurel grades B for health, #295 of 474 in Alberta and #1,646 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Laurel 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Laurel’s region’s dot is close to the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Laurel’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.4. 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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.
Getting to hospital from Laurel: 3.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Laurel’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Laurel here: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital and 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 5 in Alberta, on a scale 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 Laurel’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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (51% against 52%), while 24% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Laurel is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,001 to 15,570 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lairet QC A+ | 15,251 | 1.2 km | 62% |
| 2 | Lawrence Park South ON A | 15,018 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 3 | Edgemont AB A+ | 15,359 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 23 | Vieux-Longueuil QC A | 15,414 | 3.4 km | 55% |
| 24 | Edenbridge-Humber Valley ON A | 15,480 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 25 | Laurel AB B | 15,263 | 3.6 km | 51% |
| 26 | Doon South ON A | 15,044 | 4.4 km | 53% |
| 27 | Saint-François QC A− | 15,338 | 4.7 km | 53% |
| 40 | Whistler BC A | 15,090 | 48 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Laurel
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurel | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Daly Grove 1.0 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Crawford Plains 1.4 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Bisset 1.6 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Silver Berry 1.7 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Pollard Meadows 1.9 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Weinlos 2.5 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Laurel’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Laurel’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Laurel
How is Laurel’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Laurel 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 Laurel?
There is no figure for Laurel alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Laurel?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Laurel from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.2 km from the average resident of Laurel, 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).