Photo: Connormah · CC0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Twin Brooks’ health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. What sets Twin Brooks apart within its region is distance, and at 2.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Twin Brooks grades B for health, #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Twin Brooks
Easier circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.4 out of 5, Twin Brooks sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Twin Brooks can reach 7.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.5 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Twin Brooks 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: #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.8 km from the average home in Twin Brooks
Straight-line distances from each part of Twin Brooks, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Twin Brooks 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. 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.
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Twin Brooks’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Twin Brooks’ lies near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Twin Brooks’ region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.4. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Alberta: 33%, 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.
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
Asked about their mental health, 51% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 24% reported 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: Twin Brooks comes 18th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,024 to 5,175 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Heritage SK B+ | 5,172 | 0.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Nipawin SK C− | 5,033 | 0.9 km | 47% |
| 16 | Shaughnessy Park MB B+ | 5,169 | 2.6 km | 52% |
| 17 | Huntington ON B | 5,024 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 18 | Twin Brooks AB B | 5,102 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 19 | Capilano AB B | 5,046 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 20 | Montréal-Est QC A | 5,112 | 3.6 km | 54% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Twin Brooks
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twin Brooks | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| MacEwan 0.9 km | 3.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Skyrattler 1.3 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Mactaggart 1.8 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Bearspaw 2.1 km | 1.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Cavanagh 2.2 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Blue Quill 2.3 km | 1.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
One health region covers Twin Brooks and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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 Twin Brooks’ own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Twin Brooks
How is Twin Brooks’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Twin Brooks’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Twin Brooks?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Twin Brooks’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Twin Brooks?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Twin Brooks from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.5 km from the average resident of Twin Brooks, 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).