Photo: Gar Lunney · Public domainExpect 78.7 years of life in the region around Blood 148, 2.8 under the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 52% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Alberta (53%). For Blood 148 itself the measure is access, and it lags: 19 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. As a First Nations reserve, Blood 148 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Blood 148. Blood 148 grades C+ for health.
What stands out about health in Blood 148
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Blood 148 live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (16 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Blood 148, a pharmacy is 19 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Blood 148’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Blood 148 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.
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 Blood 148, a hospital is 19 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Blood 148’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Blood 148 is on the far side. 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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 5 health regions in Alberta, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 78.3 and a high of 83.0.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Blood 148’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.
1.2 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Blood 148’s region shows under the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.3, the expected figure is 79.9 years, and Blood 148’s region falls below with 78.7. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 81.2 years. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $83,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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 (22%) and diabetes (9.3%)
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 53% and 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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 53% very good or excellent to 52%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Blood 148
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blood 148 | 19 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
| Cardston 17 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 78.7 | B |
| Cardston County 19 km | 15 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Blood 148 and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Cardston live nearer a hospital, at 1.0 km against 19 km in Blood 148.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Blood 148 alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Blood 148
How is Blood 148’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Blood 148: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
How far is Blood 148 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Blood 148’s residents are 19 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Blood 148?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.6 for women, 76.8 for men around Blood 148 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Blood 148?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).