51% of adults around MacEwan rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.7 km from the average resident of MacEwan, about the norm of 3.7 km. MacEwan grades B for health, #299 of 474 in Alberta and #1,658 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in MacEwan
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in MacEwan has 6.2 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 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.
MacEwan 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: #299 of 474 in Alberta and #1,658 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 MacEwan, a hospital is 3.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is MacEwan’s own, not the region’s.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, MacEwan 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), MacEwan’s region comes out on the trend.
At 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.4 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one MacEwan belongs to reaches 81.2. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, sits within a few points of Alberta (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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes MacEwan’s 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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (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
Asked about their mental health, 51% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 24% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
MacEwan is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,011 to 6,186 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | South Walkerville ON B+ | 6,129 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 23 | Crystal Bay - Lakeview Park ON A | 6,059 | 3.3 km | 56% |
| 24 | Castleridge AB A+ | 6,127 | 3.5 km | 56% |
| 25 | MacEwan AB B | 6,102 | 3.7 km | 51% |
| 26 | Inkster Gardens MB B+ | 6,115 | 3.9 km | 52% |
| 27 | Southwood AB A+ | 6,092 | 3.9 km | 56% |
| 40 | Saint-Césaire QC B+ | 6,150 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around MacEwan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MacEwan | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Twin Brooks 0.9 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Cavanagh 1.5 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rutherford 1.8 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Mactaggart 2.0 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Skyrattler 2.1 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bearspaw 2.4 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates MacEwan from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
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: MacEwan shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in MacEwan
How is MacEwan’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for MacEwan: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in MacEwan?
Women in MacEwan’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is MacEwan?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is MacEwan from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in MacEwan is 0.8 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).