Photo: Eric Friedebach · CC BY 3.0Life expectancy around Cypress County is 78.7 years, 2.8 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 52% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Alberta (53%). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cypress County’s is long: 20 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Cypress County is C+, #416 of 474 in Alberta and #2,218 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cypress County
Hospital care at a distance
For 18% of homes in Cypress County the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 4.3 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Cypress County takes a trip of 19 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cypress 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: #416 of 474 in Alberta and #2,218 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.
Getting to hospital from Cypress County: 20 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cypress County, weighted by who lives there.
Cypress County is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 4.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 20 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.2 years short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Cypress County’s region’s dot is under the line.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.3 about 79.9 years of life. Cypress County’s region falls short of it, at 78.7. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group 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.
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
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 39%, tops 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.
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 4th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Cypress County’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Alberta (53% 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: Cypress County comes 36th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,746 to 7,976 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central St. Boniface MB B+ | 7,772 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 2 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Killarney/Glengarry AB A+ | 7,935 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 34 | Newell County AB C+ | 7,846 | 18 km | 52% |
| 35 | Kenora, Unorganized ON D | 7,877 | 19 km | 44% |
| 36 | Cypress County AB C+ | 7,855 | 20 km | 52% |
| 37 | North Stormont ON C | 7,946 | 22 km | 49% |
| 38 | Cardinal ON C+ | 7,952 | 24 km | 51% |
| 40 | Acton Vale QC B+ | 7,945 | 26 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cypress County
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cypress County | 20 km | 52% | 78.7 | C+ |
| Medicine Hat 4.8 km | 2.1 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
| Redcliff 12 km | 7.2 km | 52% | 78.7 | B− |
One health region covers Cypress County and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Medicine Hat live nearer a hospital, at 2.1 km against 20 km in Cypress County.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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 Cypress County’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cypress County
How far is Cypress County from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 19 km from the average resident of Cypress County, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Cypress County?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.6 for women, 76.8 for men around Cypress County (2022/2024).
How is Cypress County’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cypress 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 Cypress County?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. 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).