Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Morinville, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.2 years on average (2022/2024): 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men. Measured from where Morinville’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 16 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Morinville grades B− for health, #384 of 474 in Alberta and #1,985 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Morinville
Far from a hospital
Residents of Morinville live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Morinville 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: #384 of 474 in Alberta and #1,985 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.
From Morinville, a hospital is 16 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Morinville’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, Morinville is on the far 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Morinville’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Morinville’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 81.2 years.
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
Obesity tracks the province: 33% of adults here, 32% across Alberta.
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.
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
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 Morinville’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Alberta).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Morinville is 37th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 10,498 to 11,034 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saint-Sacrement QC A+ | 10,650 | 0.4 km | 62% |
| 2 | Weston-Pelham Park ON A | 10,680 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Bendale South ON A | 10,885 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 35 | Liverpool NS D | 10,997 | 13 km | 44% |
| 36 | Wendover ON C | 10,896 | 15 km | 49% |
| 37 | Morinville AB B− | 10,763 | 16 km | 51% |
| 38 | Shelburne ON B− | 10,767 | 21 km | 51% |
| 39 | Contrecoeur QC B+ | 10,708 | 22 km | 55% |
| 40 | Yellowhead County AB D− | 10,966 | 27 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Morinville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Morinville | 16 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Sturgeon County 7.5 km | 13 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Bon Accord 16 km | 19 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Legal 17 km | 28 km | 51% | 81.2 | C+ |
| St. Albert 18 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Morinville’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of St. Albert live nearer a hospital, at 2.6 km against 16 km in Morinville.
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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Morinville itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Morinville
How far is Morinville from a hospital?
Residents of Morinville have a pharmacy 0.9 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Morinville’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 Morinville’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Morinville?
There is no figure for Morinville alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Morinville?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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).