Photo: Laine Ewaschuk · CC BY 3.0Around Tamarack, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
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: residents of Tamarack live 4.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Tamarack a grade of B, #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Tamarack
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Tamarack can reach 5.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.6 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.
Tamarack 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: #320 of 474 in Alberta and #1,697 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 Tamarack: 4.5 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Tamarack, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Tamarack travel further 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Tamarack’s region is near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Tamarack’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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
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
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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
Among the 5 regions in Alberta, from 78.3 to 83.0 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Tamarack’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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (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
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Tamarack comes 18th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,704 to 7,022 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 2 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 16 | Edgeley ON A | 7,016 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 17 | Canyon Meadows AB A | 6,751 | 4.5 km | 56% |
| 18 | Tamarack AB B | 6,860 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 19 | Meadowood MB B+ | 6,991 | 4.7 km | 52% |
| 20 | Willow Park AB A | 6,891 | 4.7 km | 56% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Tamarack
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tamarack | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Wild Rose 0.7 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Maple 1.1 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Larkspur 1.4 km | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Silver Berry 1.6 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kiniski Gardens 2.5 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bisset 2.8 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Tamarack from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Tamarack itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Tamarack
How is Tamarack’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Tamarack’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Tamarack?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Tamarack (2022/2024).
How healthy is Tamarack?
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%.
How far is Tamarack from a hospital?
Residents of Tamarack have a pharmacy 0.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).