Around Thorncliff, 51% of adults call 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). For Thorncliff itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Thorncliff grades B+ for health, #190 of 474 in Alberta and #1,333 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Thorncliff
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Thorncliff: 0.9 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 15 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Thorncliff is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Thorncliff 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: #190 of 474 in Alberta and #1,333 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 Thorncliff, a hospital is 1.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Thorncliff’s own, not the region’s.
Thorncliff is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Thorncliff’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Thorncliff’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.4. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 4 above and 4 below; their median is 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%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, sits within a few points of Alberta (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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 2nd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Thorncliff’s 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%
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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 51% very good or excellent to 52%; 24% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Thorncliff is 5th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,509 to 3,621 people, median 5.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 4 | McMillan MB B+ | 3,568 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 5 | Thorncliff AB B+ | 3,564 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 6 | Saint-Pascal QC A | 3,516 | 1.1 km | 60% |
| 7 | Carman MB B | 3,547 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Thorncliff
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thorncliff | 1.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| West Meadowlark Park 1.1 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Aldergrove 1.3 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Elmwood 1.3 km | 0.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Belmead 1.5 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Callingwood South 1.6 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| La Perle 1.9 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Thorncliff’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Thorncliff shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Thorncliff
How is Thorncliff’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Thorncliff’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Thorncliff from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Thorncliff is 0.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Thorncliff?
Women in Thorncliff’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Thorncliff?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).