Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Few places match Strathmore for health: it beats 97% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 56% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole manages 53%. Measured from where Strathmore’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Strathmore a grade of A+, #22 of 474 in Alberta and #109 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Strathmore
Smoking runs low
Smoking is rarer around Strathmore than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.2% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Strathmore 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 ↓
Self-rated health runs high
Even once age is allowed for, 4.8 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (57% as answered). Health survey ↓
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Strathmore: 0.7 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Strathmore 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: #22 of 474 in Alberta and #109 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%)
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
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.
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
No region of the 5 in Alberta lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 78.3, a gap of 4.7 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 Strathmore’s own areas.
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%)
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, 54% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
From Strathmore, a hospital is 1.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Strathmore’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, Strathmore is on the near 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Strathmore’s region is near the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Strathmore’s region fits it, 83.0 years at 2.3 against the line’s 83.2. 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.
Strathmore is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 15,996 to 16,857 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Davie Village BC A+ | 16,833 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 8 | Newtonbrook East ON A | 15,996 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 9 | Mount Pleasant East ON A | 16,373 | 1.2 km | 50% |
| 10 | Strathmore AB A+ | 16,416 | 1.3 km | 56% |
| 11 | Leaside-Bennington ON A | 16,710 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 12 | Saint-Édouard QC A | 16,771 | 1.4 km | 54% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Strathmore
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Strathmore | 1.3 km | 56% | 83.0 | A+ |
| Wheatland County 12 km | 20 km | 56% | 83.0 | A− |
One health region covers Strathmore and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Wheatland County live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 1.3 km in Strathmore.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Strathmore’s own.
Questions about health in Strathmore
How is Strathmore’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 Strathmore’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Strathmore?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Strathmore?
There is no figure for Strathmore alone; its health region’s is 85.0 for women and 80.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Strathmore from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.8 km from the average resident of Strathmore, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).