Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Leduc, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Leduc is well placed: 2.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Leduc is B+, #236 of 474 in Alberta and #1,489 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Leduc 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: #236 of 474 in Alberta and #1,489 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Leduc’s region’s dot is close to the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Leduc’s region fits it, 81.2 years at 2.8 against the line’s 81.4. 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
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, 33%, sits within a few points of Alberta (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 Leduc: 2.0 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Leduc’s own, not the region’s.
From Leduc that is nearer than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
Among the 5 regions in Alberta, from 78.3 to 83.0 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Leduc’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%
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
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Leduc is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 36,452 to 43,877 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 8 | Pointe-Claire QC A | 37,437 | 2.0 km | 54% |
| 9 | Prince Albert SK D | 40,728 | 2.0 km | 47% |
| 10 | Leduc AB B+ | 39,966 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 11 | Port Moody BC A | 38,285 | 2.1 km | 48% |
| 12 | Laval-des-Rapides QC A | 41,971 | 2.1 km | 53% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Leduc
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Leduc and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Leduc County live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 2.0 km in Leduc.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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 Leduc’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Leduc
How far is Leduc from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.8 km from the average resident of Leduc, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Leduc’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 Leduc’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Leduc?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Leduc’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Leduc?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share 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).