Photo: Hero122 · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run shorter around Raymond: 78.7 years, 2.8 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Across the region, 52% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Alberta (53%). What sets Raymond apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Raymond is B, #373 of 474 in Alberta and #1,936 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Raymond
Near a hospital
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Raymond; from its centre of population the trip is 0.4 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.
Raymond 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: #373 of 474 in Alberta and #1,936 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 Raymond, a hospital is 1.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Raymond’s own, not the region’s.
Raymond is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.2 years behind the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Raymond’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.3 about 79.9 years of life. Raymond’s region falls short of it, at 78.7. Each of the 10 regions scored most like it does better, with a median of 81.2. Its towns’ household income, about $83,000, 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.
High blood pressure for 22% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.3%
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, 39%, tops 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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, 4th 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 Raymond’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 53% and 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (53% against 52%), while 22% call 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: Raymond comes 2nd of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,517 to 4,686 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Country Hills ON A | 4,561 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Raymond AB B | 4,594 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Jasper AB C− | 4,627 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 4 | Eastwood AB B+ | 4,681 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 40 | Casselman ON C− | 4,535 | 32 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Raymond
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raymond | 1.0 km | 52% | 78.7 | B |
| Stirling 11 km | 10 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Magrath 16 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 78.7 | B |
| Warner County No. 5 19 km | 18 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
Every place around Raymond shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Warner County No. 5 is the furthest from care, 18 km to Raymond’s 1.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Raymond shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Raymond
What is the life expectancy in Raymond?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Raymond’s health region only: 80.6 years for women and 76.8 for men (2022/2024).
How is Raymond’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Raymond’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Raymond from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Raymond is 0.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Raymond?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).