Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.051% of adults around Strathcona rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Strathcona is well placed: 2.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Strathcona grades B+ for health, #237 of 474 in Alberta and #1,495 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Strathcona
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Strathcona can reach 23 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.6 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Strathcona 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: #237 of 474 in Alberta and #1,495 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 Strathcona, a hospital is 2.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Strathcona’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Strathcona 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. 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Strathcona’s lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Strathcona’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 33%, self-reported obesity is near Alberta’s 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.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Strathcona’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 52% and 54%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Alberta).
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: Strathcona comes 12th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,158 to 8,412 people, median 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alta Vista ON A+ | 8,387 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 2 | G-Section (bramalea) ON A− | 8,224 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Valley Gardens MB B+ | 8,329 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 10 | Kirkland Lake ON C+ | 8,158 | 1.8 km | 54% |
| 11 | Upper Cornell ON A | 8,304 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 12 | Strathcona AB B+ | 8,283 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 13 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul QC A | 8,352 | 2.1 km | 55% |
| 14 | Mount Joy ON A | 8,345 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 40 | Argyle NS D− | 8,216 | 23 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Strathcona
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathcona | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Ritchie 1.4 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Queen Alexandra 1.5 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Garneau 1.7 km | 0.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Downtown 1.8 km | 0.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bonnie Doon 1.8 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Riverdale 2.1 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Strathcona’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Strathcona alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Strathcona
How is Strathcona’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 Strathcona’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Strathcona from a hospital?
For everyday care, Strathcona’s residents are 0.6 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Strathcona?
Women in Strathcona’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Strathcona?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. 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).