Health in Fox Creek · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Fox Creek’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 3.2 years: life expectancy 78.3
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole reaches 53%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.6 km from the average resident of Fox Creek, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Fox Creek grades C− for health.
Around Fox Creek, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 22% report high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Fox Creek grades C− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (48%)Better than 28% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (21%)Better than 10% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.3)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.6 km)Better than 98% of Canadian towns
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.
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.
Conditions and habits
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
22%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
9.9%
Obese (self-reported)
41%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
25%
Alberta
More adults report obesity than across Alberta: 41%, the province 32%. At 25%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 19%.
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.
For its deprivation
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Fox Creek’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Fox Creek belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.7 predicts: 78.3 years, the trend 78.5. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.9 years. A household income of about $112,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 0.6 km from the average home in Fox Creek
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fox Creek’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
153 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.4 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Fox Creek is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.3
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.7
more years expected at 65
5th
longest of 5 regions in Alberta
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Calgary Zone83.0
Edmonton Zone81.2
Central Zone79.1
South Zone78.7
North Zone78.3
No region of the 5 in Alberta has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 83.0, a gap of 4.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency1.5
Ethno-cultural composition2.7
Situational vulnerability3.8
The index is context and never graded: it describes Fox Creek’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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 49% 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
Health very good or excellent
49%
Health fair or poor
17%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
71%
Satisfied with life
83%
Alberta
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 48% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 24% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Fox Creek shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 Fox Creek
What is the life expectancy in Fox Creek?
There is no figure for Fox Creek alone; its health region’s is 80.9 for women and 76.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Fox Creek’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Fox Creek’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Fox Creek?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 21% of adults.
How far is Fox Creek from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Fox Creek is 1.4 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.