Photo: Rschuurman · Public domainOn health, Barrhead County No. 11 falls short of 93% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole reaches 53%. For Barrhead County No. 11 itself the measure is access, and it lags: 17 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Barrhead County No. 11 is D, #458 of 474 in Alberta and #2,539 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Barrhead County No. 11
Shorter lives in the region
Barrhead County No. 11’s region sits 3.2 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.7 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Around Barrhead County No. 11, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Barrhead County No. 11’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 9.1 km. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
High blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.9%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Barrhead County No. 11 grades D 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: #458 of 474 in Alberta and #2,539 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
No region of the 5 in Alberta has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 83.0, a gap of 4.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Barrhead County No. 11’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 41% of adults against 32% for Alberta. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 19%.
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 Barrhead County No. 11: 17 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Barrhead County No. 11’s own, not the region’s.
Barrhead County No. 11 is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Barrhead County No. 11’s region shows close to the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.7 would be expected to reach 78.5 years, and Barrhead County No. 11’s region is close, at 78.3. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 7 of them above it, a median of 78.9. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $112,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Self-rated health trails Alberta: 49% very good or excellent, against 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Alberta (48% against 52%), while 24% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Barrhead County No. 11 comes 37th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,092 to 6,267 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Walkerville ON B+ | 6,129 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 2 | St. Paul AB C− | 6,218 | 0.9 km | 48% |
| 3 | Grosvenor Park SK A− | 6,240 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 35 | Beaver County AB C | 6,245 | 15 km | 52% |
| 36 | Dutch Settlement NS B− | 6,234 | 16 km | 51% |
| 37 | Barrhead County No. 11 AB D | 6,186 | 17 km | 48% |
| 38 | Willow Creek No. 26 AB C+ | 6,225 | 17 km | 52% |
| 39 | McMasterville QC A− | 6,114 | 17 km | 55% |
| 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 Barrhead County No. 11
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barrhead County No. 11 | 17 km | 48% | 78.3 | D |
| Barrhead 8.5 km | 0.7 km | 48% | 78.3 | C− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Barrhead County No. 11 and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Barrhead is the closest to care, 0.7 km to Barrhead County No. 11’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Barrhead County No. 11 shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Barrhead County No. 11
How is Barrhead County No. 11’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Barrhead County No. 11’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Barrhead County No. 11?
There is no figure for Barrhead County No. 11 alone; its health region’s is 80.9 for women and 76.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Barrhead County No. 11 from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Barrhead County No. 11 is 17 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Barrhead County No. 11?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 21% 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).