Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Richfield’s health region
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). Measured from where Richfield’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.9 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Richfield is B+, #231 of 474 in Alberta and #1,476 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Richfield
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Richfield’s neighbourhoods average 4.4 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 7.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Richfield is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Richfield 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: #231 of 474 in Alberta and #1,476 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 Richfield: 1.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Richfield, weighted by who lives there.
From Richfield that is nearer than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Richfield’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Richfield’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Richfield’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
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.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (51% against 52%), while 24% call most days 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: Richfield comes 9th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,400 to 3,516 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 3 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 7 | Trillium Industrial Park ON A | 3,420 | 1.4 km | 53% |
| 8 | Fairfield ON A | 3,497 | 1.7 km | 53% |
| 9 | Richfield AB B+ | 3,456 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 10 | Glenview West ON B | 3,431 | 2.1 km | 53% |
| 11 | Hampton Heights ON B | 3,498 | 2.1 km | 53% |
| 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 Richfield
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nothing in the regional columns separates Richfield from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
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 Richfield itself is the trip to care.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Richfield
How is Richfield’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Richfield: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Richfield from a hospital?
Residents of Richfield have a pharmacy 0.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Richfield?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Richfield (2022/2024).
How healthy is Richfield?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than 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).