Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Westbrook Estates’ health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. For Westbrook Estates itself the measure is access: 2.6 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Westbrook Estates grades B+ for health, #261 of 474 in Alberta and #1,563 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Westbrook Estates
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Westbrook Estates can reach 7.7 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.4 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.
Westbrook Estates 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: #261 of 474 in Alberta and #1,563 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 Westbrook Estates, a hospital is 2.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Westbrook Estates, weighted by who lives there.
Westbrook Estates is near the provincial norm, 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta, with 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
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Westbrook Estates’ dot is marked, close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Westbrook Estates’ 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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; Westbrook Estates’ 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.
Self-rated health much as in Alberta: 52% to 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 51% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Westbrook Estates is 12th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,801 to 2,876 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | Forestville QC B+ | 2,835 | 0.9 km | 61% |
| 3 | Minnedosa MB B− | 2,859 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 10 | Senneterre QC B | 2,832 | 2.1 km | 57% |
| 11 | Newton AB B+ | 2,809 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 12 | Westbrook Estates AB B+ | 2,838 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 13 | Kildare AB B | 2,833 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 14 | Léry QC A | 2,817 | 2.9 km | 55% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Westbrook Estates
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westbrook Estates | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Royal Gardens 0.8 km | 2.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bulyea Heights 1.4 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Greenfield 1.6 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Brookside 1.6 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Sweet Grass 1.7 km | 1.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Malmo Plains 1.9 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Westbrook Estates’ 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: Westbrook Estates shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Westbrook Estates
How is Westbrook Estates’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Westbrook Estates has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Westbrook Estates?
There is no figure for Westbrook Estates alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Westbrook Estates?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Westbrook Estates from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Westbrook Estates is 1.4 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).