51% of adults around Wild Rose rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Wild Rose live 3.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Wild Rose is B, #292 of 474 in Alberta and #1,635 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wild Rose
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Wild Rose can reach 5.8 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.7 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wild Rose 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: #292 of 474 in Alberta and #1,635 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 3.5 km from the average home in Wild Rose
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wild Rose’s own, not the region’s.
Wild Rose 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Wild Rose’s dot is marked, close to 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 Wild Rose’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
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.
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 Wild Rose’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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Wild Rose is 19th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,399 to 8,680 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garneau AB B+ | 8,492 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Centretown ON A+ | 8,560 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Iqaluit NU D | 8,612 | 0.8 km | 39% |
| 17 | Carleton Heights-Courtland Park ON A | 8,621 | 3.1 km | 56% |
| 18 | Britannia ON A | 8,421 | 3.4 km | 56% |
| 19 | Wild Rose AB B | 8,534 | 3.5 km | 51% |
| 20 | Albert Park/Radisson Heights AB A+ | 8,433 | 3.7 km | 56% |
| 21 | Nolan Hill AB A+ | 8,581 | 3.8 km | 56% |
| 40 | Muskoka Lakes ON B | 8,463 | 20 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wild Rose
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wild Rose | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Tamarack 0.7 km | 4.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Silver Berry 1.0 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Larkspur 1.2 km | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Maple 1.8 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kiniski Gardens 2.0 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Bisset 2.1 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Wild Rose’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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 Wild Rose’s own.
Questions about health in Wild Rose
How is Wild Rose’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Wild Rose’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Wild Rose?
There is no figure for Wild Rose alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Wild Rose?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Wild Rose from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.7 km from the average resident of Wild Rose, 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).