Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Queen Alexandra’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.2 years, 83.6 for a girl and 78.8 for a boy (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Queen Alexandra is well placed: 1.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Queen Alexandra grades B+ for health, #202 of 474 in Alberta and #1,386 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Queen Alexandra
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Queen Alexandra is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.1 km away. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Queen Alexandra can reach 20 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.4 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Queen Alexandra 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: #202 of 474 in Alberta and #1,386 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.
Getting to hospital from Queen Alexandra: 1.3 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Queen Alexandra, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Queen Alexandra 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. 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
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Queen Alexandra’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Queen Alexandra belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Alberta, where life expectancy runs from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
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; Queen Alexandra’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.
Self-rated health much as in Alberta: 52% to 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 51% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
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: Queen Alexandra comes 8th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,029 to 5,185 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Heritage SK B+ | 5,172 | 0.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Nipawin SK C− | 5,033 | 0.9 km | 47% |
| 6 | Mt. Hope Huron Park ON A | 5,174 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 7 | River-Osborne MB B+ | 5,090 | 1.1 km | 52% |
| 8 | Queen Alexandra AB B+ | 5,106 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 9 | Carbonear NL D | 5,041 | 1.4 km | 44% |
| 10 | Hearst ON C | 5,032 | 1.4 km | 48% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Queen Alexandra
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Queen Alexandra and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Queen Alexandra itself is the trip to care.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Queen Alexandra
How is Queen Alexandra’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Queen Alexandra has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Queen Alexandra from a hospital?
Residents of Queen Alexandra have a pharmacy 0.4 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Queen Alexandra?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Queen Alexandra’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Queen Alexandra?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. 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).