Photo: Authentic Alberta · CC BY-SA 4.0A hospital trip from Nanton means 27 km on average, in a straight line
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 56%, ahead of the 53% for Alberta. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 27 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Health gives Nanton a grade of A−, #171 of 474 in Alberta and #1,054 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Nanton
A region that smokes less
Around Nanton, only 6.2% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Nanton takes a trip of 27 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Nanton runs 1.5 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 21.7 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.8 points above the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 57%. Health survey ↓
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.
Nanton grades A− 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: #171 of 474 in Alberta and #1,054 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (17%) and diabetes (6.7%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Fewer adults report obesity than across Alberta: 27%, 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.
Pharmacies around Nanton: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 27 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Nanton’s own, not the region’s.
Nanton is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Alberta, 4.7 years ahead of the last at 78.3.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Nanton’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.
57% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in Alberta (54%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 54% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 23% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Nanton’s region comes out on the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 2.3 would be expected to reach 83.2 years, and Nanton’s region is close, at 83.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (7 of 10, median 82.8 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Nanton is 36th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 2,587 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Rimbey AB C+ | 2,502 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Elmwood AB B+ | 2,522 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 34 | Salisbury NB C | 2,585 | 20 km | 43% |
| 35 | Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce QC B+ | 2,575 | 20 km | 59% |
| 36 | Nanton AB A− | 2,522 | 27 km | 56% |
| 37 | Gracefield QC C+ | 2,544 | 32 km | 55% |
| 38 | Saint-Damien QC B | 2,569 | 34 km | 56% |
| 40 | North Frontenac ON B− | 2,515 | 47 km | 53% |
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
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Nanton itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Nanton
How far is Nanton from a hospital?
Residents of Nanton have a pharmacy 27 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Nanton?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Nanton?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Nanton’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Nanton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Nanton: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).