Health in Alexander 134 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Alexander 134 live 28 km from the nearest hospital on average
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole reaches 53%. A pharmacy is nearer: 20 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Alexander 134 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Alexander 134 itself. Health gives Alexander 134 a grade of C+.
Picking up a prescription in Alexander 134 takes a trip of 20 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Alexander 134 sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Alexander 134 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (28 km)Better than 12% of Canadian towns
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.
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 care
Pharmacies around Alexander 134: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 20 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Alexander 134’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
28 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
31 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
20 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Alexander 134 travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. The clinic list is thin in Alberta: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 5 regions in Alberta
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Calgary Zone83.0
Edmonton Zone81.2
Central Zone79.1
South Zone78.7
North Zone78.3
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
Residential instability2.0
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Alexander 134’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Alexander 134’s region comes out on the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Alexander 134’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
Conditions and habits
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
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
17%
Alberta
At 33%, self-reported obesity is near Alberta’s 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.
Health survey
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
57%
Satisfied with life
82%
Alberta
Mental health is close to the province’s: 51% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Alberta, and 24% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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 Alexander 134’s own.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
Questions about health in Alexander 134
How far is Alexander 134 from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 20 km from the average resident of Alexander 134, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Alexander 134’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 Alexander 134’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
What is the life expectancy in Alexander 134?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Alexander 134 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Alexander 134?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.