Photo: WinterE229 WinterforceMedia · Public domainAround Beaumont, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). Measured from where Beaumont’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Beaumont a grade of B, #372 of 474 in Alberta and #1,929 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaumont
Far from a hospital
Residents of Beaumont live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (12 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Beaumont 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.
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: #372 of 474 in Alberta and #1,929 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.
From Beaumont, a hospital is 12 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Beaumont’s own, not the region’s.
From Beaumont that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Beaumont’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Beaumont belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 33%, sits within a few points of 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.
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
Ranked 2nd 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Beaumont’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.
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
Asked about their mental health, 51% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 24% reported 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, Beaumont is 34th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 25,240 to 27,526 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Parc-Kent QC A | 27,291 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | Loyola QC A | 26,607 | 0.6 km | 54% |
| 3 | Sault-au-Récollet QC A | 25,464 | 0.7 km | 54% |
| 32 | Foothills County AB A | 25,789 | 11 km | 56% |
| 33 | Lunenburg NS D | 26,862 | 12 km | 44% |
| 34 | Beaumont AB B | 26,305 | 12 km | 51% |
| 35 | Grande Prairie County No. 1 AB D | 25,883 | 14 km | 48% |
| 36 | Angus ON B | 26,036 | 15 km | 54% |
| 40 | Enfield NS D− | 26,960 | 26 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Beaumont
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaumont | 12 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| The Orchards At Ellerslie 6.4 km | 6.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Summerside 7.5 km | 5.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Walker 7.6 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Charlesworth 8.3 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ellerslie 8.7 km | 4.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Callaghan 9.4 km | 6.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Beaumont’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Charlesworth live nearer a hospital, at 3.9 km against 12 km in Beaumont.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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 Beaumont’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Beaumont
How is Beaumont’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 Beaumont’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Beaumont from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.3 km from the average resident of Beaumont, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Beaumont?
Women in Beaumont’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Beaumont?
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 18% 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).