Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Windermere’s health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 8.2 km from the average resident of Windermere, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Windermere a grade of B, #369 of 474 in Alberta and #1,845 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Windermere
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Windermere’s neighbourhoods average 1.1 out of 5, among the least deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Windermere 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: #369 of 474 in Alberta and #1,845 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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 5 health regions in Alberta, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.3 and a high of 83.0.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Windermere’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Windermere’s region comes out on the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Windermere’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, 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.
The nearest hospital is 8.2 km from the average home in Windermere
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Windermere’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Windermere travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (54%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 24% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Alberta’s 52%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Windermere is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,652 to 15,194 people, median 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 3 | South London ON A− | 14,684 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 33 | Chappelle AB B | 14,815 | 7.7 km | 51% |
| 34 | Campbellford ON C+ | 15,103 | 8.0 km | 49% |
| 35 | Windermere AB B | 14,922 | 8.2 km | 51% |
| 36 | Rockwood ON B | 14,870 | 9.5 km | 51% |
| 37 | Bécancour QC A− | 14,943 | 9.7 km | 61% |
| 40 | Whistler BC A | 15,090 | 48 km | 59% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Windermere
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Windermere | 8.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ambleside 1.2 km | 7.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Keswick 2.0 km | 9.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Glenridding Heights 2.2 km | 7.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Haddow 2.4 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| South Terwillegar 2.7 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Terwillegar Towne 3.0 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Windermere’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Windermere alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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. 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. 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Windermere
How is Windermere’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Windermere has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Windermere from a hospital?
For everyday care, Windermere’s residents are 2.0 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Windermere?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Windermere’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Windermere?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind 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).