Health in Bassano · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Bassano: 78.7 years, 2.8 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Alberta as a whole is at 53%. What sets Bassano apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Bassano is B.
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 46 km from the average home in Bassano, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Bassano sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Health Grade
Bassano grades B 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 (52%)Better than 56% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 73% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.7)Better than 18% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.4 km)Better than almost every Canadian town
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
Getting to hospital from Bassano: 0.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bassano’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
104 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
46 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
Bassano is closer in 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
4th
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 4th 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 instability3.0
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability4.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Bassano’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.2 years behind the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Bassano’s region shows under the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Bassano belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.3 predicts: 78.7 years, where the trend gives 79.9. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 81.2 years. Households here earn around $83,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
Conditions and habits
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.3% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
22%
Arthritis
23%
Diabetes
9.3%
Obese (self-reported)
39%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
9.4%
Heavy drinking
18%
Alberta
At 39%, self-reported obesity is above 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
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 53% and 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
53%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
53%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
83%
Alberta
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 53% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Alberta’s 52%.
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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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.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for 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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Bassano alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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 Bassano
How is Bassano’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 Bassano’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Bassano?
For the health region that includes Bassano, women can expect 80.6 years and men 76.8 (2022/2024).
How far is Bassano from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bassano’s residents are 46 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Bassano?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0