Photo: Joningham · CC BY-SA 4.0Lives run shorter around Innisfail: 79.1 years, 2.4 below the typical Canadian town’s region
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 52% very good or excellent, 53% for Alberta. What sets Innisfail apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Innisfail a grade of C+, #394 of 474 in Alberta and #2,107 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Innisfail
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Innisfail is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, Innisfail is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.6 km away. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Innisfail has 4.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Innisfail 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.
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: #394 of 474 in Alberta and #2,107 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.9%
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
More adults report obesity than across Alberta: 39%, 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.
Getting to hospital from Innisfail: 1.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Innisfail’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Innisfail is on the near side. 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Innisfail’s region’s dot is under the line.
Where residents average 3.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 79.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Innisfail belongs to trails at 79.1. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 81.2 years. Its towns’ household income, about $85,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
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
The region comes 3rd of 5 in Alberta, where life expectancy runs from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Innisfail’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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
Asked about their mental health, 54% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Innisfail comes 3rd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,534 to 8,935 people, median 3.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Centretown ON A+ | 8,560 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Iqaluit NU D | 8,612 | 0.8 km | 39% |
| 3 | Innisfail AB C+ | 8,736 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 4 | Munroe East MB B+ | 8,873 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 5 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste QC A+ | 8,882 | 1.1 km | 62% |
| 40 | Manotick ON A− | 8,770 | 16 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Innisfail
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innisfail | 1.0 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Bowden 11 km | 11 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
| Penhold 14 km | 14 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
| Red Deer County 18 km | 15 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
The neighbours all sit in Innisfail’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Red Deer County is the furthest from care, 15 km to Innisfail’s 1.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Innisfail’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Innisfail
How is Innisfail’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Innisfail’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Innisfail?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.7 for women, 76.6 for men around Innisfail (2022/2024).
How far is Innisfail from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.9 km from the average resident of Innisfail, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Innisfail?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).