51% of adults around Mactaggart rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.5 km from the average resident of Mactaggart, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Mactaggart a grade of B, #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mactaggart
Deprivation runs low
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Mactaggart’s neighbourhoods average 1.4 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.
Mactaggart 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: #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Mactaggart’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Mactaggart’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Mactaggart’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.4. 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
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.
From Mactaggart, a hospital is 4.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Mactaggart, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Mactaggart 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. 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.
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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 51% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 24%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Mactaggart comes 20th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,551 to 3,653 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 18 | Deer Run AB A+ | 3,652 | 3.8 km | 56% |
| 19 | Quinndale ON B | 3,621 | 3.9 km | 53% |
| 20 | Mactaggart AB B | 3,603 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 21 | Des Vallées QC B | 3,575 | 4.8 km | 55% |
| 22 | South Tuxedo MB B+ | 3,629 | 5.0 km | 52% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mactaggart
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mactaggart | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Magrath Heights 1.2 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| South Terwillegar 1.4 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Twin Brooks 1.8 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Terwillegar Towne 1.9 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ogilvie Ridge 2.0 km | 3.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| MacEwan 2.0 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Mactaggart and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Mactaggart alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
Questions about health in Mactaggart
How is Mactaggart’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Mactaggart: 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 Mactaggart?
There is no figure for Mactaggart alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Mactaggart?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Mactaggart from a hospital?
For everyday care, Mactaggart’s residents are 0.7 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).