51% of adults around Ramsay Heights 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 2.7 km from the average resident of Ramsay Heights, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Ramsay Heights a grade of B, #266 of 474 in Alberta and #1,575 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Ramsay Heights 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: #266 of 474 in Alberta and #1,575 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Ramsay Heights’ region shows close to the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Ramsay Heights’ 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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.
The nearest hospital is 2.7 km from the average home in Ramsay Heights
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ramsay Heights’ own, not the region’s.
Residents of Ramsay Heights travel about as far as 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 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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Ramsay Heights’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Ramsay Heights is 17th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,374 to 3,497 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 15 | Riverdale East ON B | 3,416 | 2.5 km | 53% |
| 16 | Delwood AB B+ | 3,491 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 17 | Ramsay Heights AB B | 3,434 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 18 | Brevoort Park SK B+ | 3,485 | 3.0 km | 49% |
| 19 | Buchanan MB B+ | 3,473 | 3.3 km | 52% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ramsay Heights
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ramsay Heights | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Brookside 1.0 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bulyea Heights 1.6 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rhatigan Ridge 1.9 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| River Valley Oleskiw 2.1 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Westbrook Estates 2.5 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Patricia Heights 2.7 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Ramsay Heights’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Ramsay Heights’ own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Ramsay Heights
How is Ramsay Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Ramsay Heights: 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 Ramsay Heights?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Ramsay Heights’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Ramsay Heights?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Ramsay Heights from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 2.5 km from the average resident of Ramsay Heights, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).