Photo: Myke2020 · Public domainLife expectancy around Vegreville is 79.1 years, 2.4 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 52% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Alberta (53%). Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.4 km from the average resident of Vegreville, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Vegreville grades C+ for health, #403 of 474 in Alberta and #2,133 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Vegreville
Smoking runs high
Around Vegreville, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Vegreville: 1.3 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.
Vegreville grades C+ 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: #403 of 474 in Alberta and #2,133 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.9%
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
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.
Getting to hospital from Vegreville: 1.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Vegreville’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Vegreville are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Vegreville’s region is below the line.
Where residents average 3.3 on the index, regions tend to reach 79.9 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Vegreville belongs to trails at 79.1. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.2 years. Its towns’ household income, about $85,000, 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.
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
Ranked 3rd 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Vegreville’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 51% 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
Asked about their mental health, 54% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Vegreville is 8th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,079 to 6,245 people, median 2.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | South Walkerville ON B+ | 6,129 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 6 | Crown Point West ON B | 6,132 | 1.3 km | 53% |
| 7 | Alberta Avenue AB B+ | 6,097 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 8 | Vegreville AB C+ | 6,153 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 9 | Playfair Park - Guildwood Estates ON A+ | 6,186 | 1.5 km | 56% |
| 10 | Sargent Park MB B+ | 6,242 | 1.5 km | 52% |
| 40 | Saint-Césaire QC B+ | 6,150 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Vegreville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vegreville | 1.4 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
| Minburn County No. 27 18 km | 13 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
One health region covers Vegreville and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Minburn County No. 27 is the furthest from care, 13 km to Vegreville’s 1.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Vegreville itself is the trip to care.
- 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 Vegreville
How is Vegreville’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Vegreville has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Vegreville?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Vegreville’s health region only: 81.7 years for women and 76.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Vegreville from a hospital?
Residents of Vegreville have a pharmacy 0.8 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Vegreville?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
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).