Photo: Tara Zieminek · Public domain51% of adults around Spruce Grove rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Spruce Grove apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Spruce Grove a grade of B, #333 of 474 in Alberta and #1,725 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Spruce Grove
Plenty of pharmacies
With 8.7 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.8 km off, Spruce Grove is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Spruce Grove 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: #333 of 474 in Alberta and #1,725 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 Spruce Grove, a hospital is 5.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Spruce Grove’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, Spruce Grove is on the far side. 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Spruce Grove’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Spruce Grove’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 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%)
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Alberta: 33%, 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.
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 region is 2nd longest-lived of 5 in Alberta, on a scale from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
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 Spruce Grove’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: 52% and 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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, Spruce Grove is 25th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 39,194 to 50,686 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 2 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 3 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 23 | Dollard-Des Ormeaux QC A | 50,246 | 4.5 km | 54% |
| 24 | Fabreville QC A | 48,457 | 4.5 km | 53% |
| 25 | Spruce Grove AB B | 44,575 | 5.1 km | 51% |
| 26 | Cochrane AB A | 39,397 | 5.2 km | 56% |
| 27 | Quinte West ON C− | 50,385 | 5.5 km | 45% |
| 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 Spruce Grove
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spruce Grove | 5.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Stony Plain 6.7 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Parkland County 13 km | 15 km | 51% | 81.2 | B− |
| Enoch Cree Nation 14 km | 8.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Secord 14 km | 5.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rosenthal 14 km | 5.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Suder Greens 15 km | 4.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Spruce Grove from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Parkland County live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 5.1 km in Spruce Grove.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Spruce Grove shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Spruce Grove
How is Spruce Grove’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Spruce Grove: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Spruce Grove?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Spruce Grove’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Spruce Grove?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Spruce Grove from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Spruce Grove is 0.8 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).