Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Weinlos’ health region
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Weinlos apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Weinlos grades B+ for health, #194 of 474 in Alberta and #1,346 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Weinlos
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Weinlos; from its centre of population the trip is 1.1 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Weinlos has 6.7 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. 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.
Weinlos 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: #194 of 474 in Alberta and #1,346 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 Weinlos, a hospital is 1.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Weinlos’ own, not the region’s.
From Weinlos 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.
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); Weinlos’ region is near the line.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.8 would be expected to reach 81.4 years, and Weinlos’ region is close, at 81.2. 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.
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
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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 Weinlos’ 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.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of Alberta: 51% against 52%, and 24% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Weinlos is 7th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,189 to 3,297 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 5 | Jasper Park AB B+ | 3,219 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 6 | Sturgeon Creek MB B+ | 3,202 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 7 | Weinlos AB B+ | 3,243 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 8 | Bonavista NL C− | 3,293 | 1.2 km | 44% |
| 9 | Westwood AB B+ | 3,279 | 1.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Weinlos
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weinlos | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Minchau 0.5 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Hillview 0.9 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bisset 1.0 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Pollard Meadows 1.1 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Meyokumin 1.4 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Daly Grove 1.6 km | 2.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Weinlos’ regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Weinlos shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Weinlos
How is Weinlos’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Weinlos’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Weinlos from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Weinlos is 0.8 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Weinlos?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Weinlos (2022/2024).
How healthy is Weinlos?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).