Few places match Alpine for health: it beats 92% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 53% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Ontario as a whole manages 51%. What sets Alpine apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Alpine a grade of A, #89 of 866 in Ontario and #477 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Alpine
A long-lived region
Born around Alpine, a child can expect 1.3 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Alpine can reach 18 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.7 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.
Alpine 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: #89 of 866 in Ontario and #477 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 34 regions in Ontario
Regional life expectancy in Ontario, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 34 health regions in Ontario, 6th place goes to this one, between a low of 73.7 and a high of 86.3.
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 Alpine’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.
Getting to hospital from Alpine: 1.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Alpine’s own, not the region’s.
Alpine is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.3 km in Ontario, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Alpine’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.6 about 82.5 years; Alpine’s region’s 82.8 is within a year of it. It outlives 7 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 82.5 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.
17% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8% 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
More adults report obesity than across Ontario: 33%, the province 30%.
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.
Self-rated health beats Ontario: 55% very good or excellent, against 51%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Ontario (52% against 51%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Alpine is 10th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,005 to 3,100 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 8 | Laurier Heights AB B+ | 3,048 | 1.3 km | 51% |
| 9 | South Portage MB B+ | 3,037 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 10 | Alpine ON A | 3,055 | 1.6 km | 53% |
| 11 | Bisset AB B+ | 3,049 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 12 | Cap-Saint-Ignace QC A | 3,074 | 2.4 km | 59% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Alpine
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alpine | 1.6 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Country Hills 1.1 km | 0.5 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Country Hills West 1.5 km | 1.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Southdale 1.6 km | 1.2 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Laurentian Hills 1.6 km | 2.1 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Trillium Industrial Park 1.8 km | 1.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
| Vanier 2.4 km | 2.4 km | 53% | 82.8 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Alpine’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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 Alpine’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Alpine
How is Alpine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Alpine’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Alpine?
Women in Alpine’s region live to 84.9 on average and men to 80.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Alpine?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out ahead of the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
How far is Alpine from a hospital?
For everyday care, Alpine’s residents are 0.7 km from a pharmacy and 2.6 km from a clinic on average.
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).