Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.051% of adults around Pleasantview rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. For Pleasantview itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.5 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Pleasantview grades B+ for health, #255 of 474 in Alberta and #1,543 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pleasantview
Pharmacies on every corner
A typical home in Pleasantview has 17 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.5 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.
Pleasantview 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: #255 of 474 in Alberta and #1,543 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 Pleasantview, a hospital is 2.5 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pleasantview’s own, not the region’s.
Pleasantview is near the provincial norm, 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta, with the typical Canadian town at 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Pleasantview’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Pleasantview’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%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 33% of adults against 32% for Alberta.
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
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 Pleasantview’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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (54%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Pleasantview comes 11th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,688 to 3,804 people, median 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 9 | North Glenora AB B+ | 3,693 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 10 | Killarney MB C+ | 3,708 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 11 | Pleasantview AB B+ | 3,746 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 12 | Blind River ON C− | 3,692 | 2.6 km | 46% |
| 13 | Inkster-Faraday MB B+ | 3,700 | 2.6 km | 52% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pleasantview
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasantview | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Empire Park 0.8 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Malmo Plains 1.2 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Allendale 1.2 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Duggan 1.9 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Royal Gardens 2.1 km | 2.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| McKernan 2.4 km | 0.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Pleasantview’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Pleasantview 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Pleasantview
How is Pleasantview’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 Pleasantview’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Pleasantview?
Women in Pleasantview’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Pleasantview?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Pleasantview from a hospital?
For everyday care, Pleasantview’s residents are 0.5 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).