Photo: WinterE229 (WinterforceMedia) · CC0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in McCauley’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. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.5 km from the average resident of McCauley, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for McCauley is B+, #173 of 474 in Alberta and #1,271 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in McCauley
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as McCauley; from its centre of population the trip is 0.4 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, McCauley’s neighbourhoods average 4.9 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of McCauley can reach 21 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
McCauley 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: #173 of 474 in Alberta and #1,271 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.
The nearest hospital is 0.5 km from the average home in McCauley
Straight-line distances from each part of McCauley, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of McCauley are closer 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.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; McCauley’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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; McCauley’s dot is marked, close to the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and McCauley’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.
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
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.
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
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Alberta).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: McCauley comes 1st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,002 to 4,122 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCauley AB B+ | 4,060 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Centremount ON B | 4,053 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 40 | Mistissini QC | 4,067 | 66 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around McCauley
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| McCauley | 0.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Boyle Street 0.7 km | 0.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Central McDougall 1.2 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Alberta Avenue 1.6 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Parkdale 1.6 km | 0.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Virginia Park 1.8 km | 1.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Downtown 2.1 km | 0.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in McCauley’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.
- 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.
- 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 McCauley’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in McCauley
How is McCauley’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus McCauley’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is McCauley from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.5 km from the average resident of McCauley, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in McCauley?
Women in McCauley’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is McCauley?
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.
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).