Photo: Cherry2207 · CC BY 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Pollard Meadows’ health region
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. For Pollard Meadows itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Pollard Meadows grades B+ for health, #222 of 474 in Alberta and #1,459 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pollard Meadows
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Pollard Meadows at 4.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Pollard Meadows can reach 4.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.8 km off. 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.
Pollard Meadows 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: #222 of 474 in Alberta and #1,459 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 1.8 km from the average home in Pollard Meadows
Straight-line distances from each part of Pollard Meadows, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Pollard Meadows is on the near side. 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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Pollard Meadows’ 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
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Pollard Meadows’ region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Pollard Meadows’ region, at 2.8, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. 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%
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 52% and 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 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.
Pollard Meadows is 13th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,279 to 4,433 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Golden BC B+ | 4,433 | 0.7 km | 57% |
| 3 | Roslyn MB B+ | 4,411 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 11 | Patricia Heights AB B+ | 4,355 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 12 | Deep River ON C+ | 4,353 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 13 | Pollard Meadows AB B+ | 4,361 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 14 | Bellerive QC A | 4,393 | 2.1 km | 55% |
| 15 | Bruleville ON B | 4,310 | 2.5 km | 53% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pollard Meadows
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pollard Meadows | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Daly Grove 0.8 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Meyokumin 0.9 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bisset 1.0 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Weinlos 1.1 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Crawford Plains 1.2 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Sakaw 1.4 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Pollard Meadows and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Pollard Meadows itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Pollard Meadows
How is Pollard Meadows’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Pollard Meadows’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Pollard Meadows from a hospital?
Residents of Pollard Meadows have a pharmacy 0.8 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Pollard Meadows?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Pollard Meadows’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Pollard Meadows?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).