Photo: jayscratch from Victoria, B.C., Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0People in Camrose County’s health region live to 79.1 on average, 2.4 years short of the typical Canadian town
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Alberta, 52% against 53%. What sets Camrose County apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 17 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Camrose County is C, #429 of 474 in Alberta and #2,329 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Camrose County
A long way to hospital
Residents of Camrose County live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Camrose County than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Camrose County takes a trip of 22 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
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.
Camrose 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: #429 of 474 in Alberta and #2,329 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 Camrose County, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Camrose County’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, Camrose County is on the far side. 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.
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
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Camrose County’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Camrose County’s region’s: 79.1 years where the line expects 79.9 at 3.3. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle. Households here earn around $85,000, 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.
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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 3rd of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Camrose County’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (54% against 52%), while 22% 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: Camrose County comes 38th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,744 to 9,157 people, median 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Corktown ON B+ | 8,952 | 0.3 km | 53% |
| 2 | North Central SK B+ | 9,124 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Booth MB B+ | 9,016 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 36 | Manotick ON A− | 8,770 | 16 km | 56% |
| 37 | Sainte-Brigitte-de-Laval QC A+ | 9,084 | 17 km | 62% |
| 38 | Camrose County AB C | 8,951 | 17 km | 52% |
| 39 | Grande Cache AB D− | 8,984 | 22 km | 48% |
| 40 | Kimberley BC B− | 9,037 | 24 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Camrose 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Camrose County | 17 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
| Camrose 12 km | 1.5 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Camrose County from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Camrose is the closest to care, 1.5 km to Camrose County’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Camrose County alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Camrose County
How far is Camrose County from a hospital?
For everyday care, Camrose County’s residents are 22 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Camrose County?
For the health region that includes Camrose County, women can expect 81.7 years and men 76.6 (2022/2024).
How is Camrose County’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Camrose County: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Camrose County?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).