Photo: Jacob Marfo · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in La Crète trails 90% of Canadian towns
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. Measured from where La Crète’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. La Crète grades D for health, #455 of 474 in Alberta and #2,505 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in La Crète
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around La Crète, a child can expect 3.2 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 19.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes more
Around La Crète, 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 ↓
Far from a hospital
For 12% of homes in La Crète the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 0.9 km. 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.
La Crète grades D 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: #455 of 474 in Alberta and #2,505 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.
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
Last of the 5 regions in Alberta: the highest figure is 83.0, 4.7 years above the lowest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas La Crète’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 41%, tops Alberta (32%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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.
Getting to hospital from La Crète: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Crète’s own, not the region’s.
La Crète is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 0.9 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 12 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; La Crète’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and La Crète’s region, at 3.7, should live about 78.5 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 78.3, near enough. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 7 still live longer, with 78.9 years in the middle. 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.
49% 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
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.
Among 40 towns its size, La Crète is 36th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,211 to 14,774 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 3 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 34 | Colchester County, Subdivision C NS D | 14,211 | 10 km | 42% |
| 35 | Val-des-Monts QC B | 14,473 | 11 km | 55% |
| 36 | La Crète AB D | 14,488 | 12 km | 48% |
| 37 | South Glengarry ON C+ | 14,355 | 13 km | 49% |
| 38 | Long Sault ON C | 14,602 | 15 km | 49% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
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. 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to La Crète alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in La Crète
How is La Crète’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 La Crète’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in La Crète?
Statistics Canada publishes it for La Crète’s health region only: 80.9 years for women and 76.1 for men (2022/2024).
How far is La Crète from a hospital?
For everyday care, La Crète’s residents are 31 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is La Crète?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
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).