Photo: Darren Kirby from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Expect 79.1 years of life in the region around Beaver County, 2.4 under the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Alberta: 52% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 53%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Beaver County’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Beaver County a grade of C, #427 of 474 in Alberta and #2,305 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Beaver County
A long way to hospital
For 7% of homes in Beaver County the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Beaver County than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Beaver County, a pharmacy is 35 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Beaver County 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.
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: #427 of 474 in Alberta and #2,305 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 Beaver County, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Beaver County, weighted by who lives there.
Beaver County is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.9%
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
More adults report obesity than across Alberta: 39%, the province 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 0.8 years short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Beaver County’s region comes out below the trend.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Beaver County belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.3 predicts: 79.1 years, where the trend gives 79.9. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.2 years. Its towns’ household income, about $85,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Alberta
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Alberta, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 3rd 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Beaver County itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 51% to 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
Mental health is no outlier: 54% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 22% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Beaver County is 34th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,132 to 6,361 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Neepawa MB B− | 6,328 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Cherry Hill ON A | 6,304 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 32 | Lac-Brome QC A | 6,307 | 14 km | 57% |
| 33 | Woodstock NB C− | 6,260 | 15 km | 45% |
| 34 | Beaver County AB C | 6,245 | 15 km | 52% |
| 35 | Dutch Settlement NS B− | 6,234 | 16 km | 51% |
| 36 | Barrhead County No. 11 AB D | 6,186 | 17 km | 48% |
| 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 Beaver County
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaver County | 15 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
| Tofield 11 km | 0.8 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
Around Beaver County the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Tofield live nearer a hospital, at 0.8 km against 15 km in Beaver County.
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. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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 Beaver County’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.
Questions about health in Beaver County
What is the life expectancy in Beaver County?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.7 for women, 76.6 for men around Beaver County (2022/2024).
How far is Beaver County from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 35 km from the average resident of Beaver County, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Beaver County’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Beaver County has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Beaver County?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% 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).