Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Rocky View County scores better for health than 89% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 56% very good or excellent, against 53% in Alberta. Measured from where Rocky View County’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 13 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Rocky View County a grade of A, #166 of 474 in Alberta and #733 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rocky View County
Smoking runs low
Around Rocky View County, only 6.2% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Rocky View County live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (3.6 km from its centre of population), and 3% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Rocky View County, a child can expect 1.5 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.7 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.8 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 57% answered very good or excellent. 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.
Rocky View County 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: #166 of 474 in Alberta and #733 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.7% diabetes
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
At 27%, self-reported obesity is below Alberta’s 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.
The nearest hospital is 13 km from the average home in Rocky View County
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rocky View County’s own, not the region’s.
Rocky View County is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 3.6 km, while the average resident is 13 km away. 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.
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
Top of the 5 regions in Alberta: the lowest figure is 78.3, 4.7 years below the highest.
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 Rocky View County’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
More people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 57% to 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 close to the province’s: 54% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Rocky View County’s lies near the line.
At 2.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 83.2 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Rocky View County belongs to reaches 83.0. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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.
Rocky View County is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 43,243 to 58,010 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 34 | Stouffville ON A− | 58,010 | 10 km | 51% |
| 35 | Caledonia ON D | 56,059 | 10 km | 48% |
| 36 | Rocky View County AB A | 50,260 | 13 km | 56% |
| 37 | Innisfil ON B | 50,686 | 14 km | 54% |
| 38 | Vaudreuil-Dorion QC A− | 46,413 | 17 km | 55% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rocky View County
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky View County | 13 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Rocky Ridge 2.2 km | 2.8 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Royal Oak 3.2 km | 1.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Tuscany 4.0 km | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Arbour Lake 5.1 km | 2.7 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Scenic Acres 5.5 km | 4.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A |
| Citadel 6.1 km | 2.6 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
Rocky View County and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Royal Oak live nearer a hospital, at 1.7 km against 13 km in Rocky View County.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Rocky View County alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Rocky View County
How is Rocky View County’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Rocky View County has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Rocky View County from a hospital?
For everyday care, Rocky View County’s residents are 7.0 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Rocky View County?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Rocky View County?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Rocky View County’s health region only: 85.0 years for women and 80.9 for men (2022/2024).
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).