Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · CC0Around St. Albert, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital sits 2.6 km from the average resident of St. Albert, about the norm of 3.7 km. St. Albert grades B+ for health, #261 of 474 in Alberta and #1,563 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in St. Albert
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of St. Albert can reach 4.6 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.4 km off. 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.
St. Albert 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: #261 of 474 in Alberta and #1,563 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.
Getting to hospital from St. Albert: 2.6 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of St. Albert, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as St. Albert goes. 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, St. Albert’s, follows the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region St. Albert belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, 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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Alberta, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 2nd of 5 in Alberta: the regions span 78.3 to 83.0 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for St. Albert itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
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%
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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 51% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 24%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
St. Albert is 13th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (55,572 to 97,845 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Vancouver BC A+ | 66,624 | 1.1 km | 59% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Chomedey QC A | 81,813 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 11 | Brandon MB C+ | 59,444 | 2.5 km | 51% |
| 12 | Granby QC A+ | 72,180 | 2.6 km | 57% |
| 13 | St. Albert AB B+ | 74,621 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 14 | Grande Prairie AB C− | 71,160 | 2.7 km | 48% |
| 15 | Peterborough ON C+ | 97,834 | 2.8 km | 47% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around St. Albert
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Albert | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Albany 4.7 km | 6.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Carlton 4.9 km | 5.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Oxford 5.6 km | 6.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Cumberland 5.8 km | 6.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rapperswill 6.1 km | 6.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Hudson 6.4 km | 5.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Nothing in the regional columns separates St. Albert from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Rapperswill is the furthest from care, 6.5 km to St. Albert’s 2.6 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for St. Albert itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in St. Albert
How is St. Albert’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 St. Albert’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in St. Albert?
Women in St. Albert’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is St. Albert?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is St. Albert from a hospital?
Residents of St. Albert have a pharmacy 1.4 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).