Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Bannerman’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.2 years (83.6 for women, 78.8 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Bannerman apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.2 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Bannerman grades B+ for health, #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bannerman
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Bannerman’s neighbourhoods average 4.5 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 5.2 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Bannerman is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Bannerman 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: #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 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 Bannerman: 2.2 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Bannerman, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Bannerman here: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Bannerman’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Bannerman’s lies near the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Bannerman’s region, at 2.8, should live about 81.4 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.2, near enough. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (4) and half worse (4), around a median of 81.2.
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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.4% diabetes
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
About as many adults report obesity as across Alberta: 33%, 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: 52% 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, 51% very good or excellent to 52%; 24% 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Bannerman comes 13th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,106 to 5,262 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Heritage SK B+ | 5,172 | 0.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Didsbury AB A+ | 5,185 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 11 | Bearspaw AB B+ | 5,192 | 1.7 km | 51% |
| 12 | Crown Point East ON B | 5,215 | 2.0 km | 53% |
| 13 | Bannerman AB B+ | 5,187 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 14 | Tweddle Place AB B+ | 5,211 | 2.3 km | 51% |
| 15 | Shaughnessy Park MB B+ | 5,169 | 2.6 km | 52% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bannerman
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Same region, same survey: Bannerman’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Bannerman itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Bannerman
How is Bannerman’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Bannerman’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Bannerman from a hospital?
Residents of Bannerman have a pharmacy 0.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Bannerman?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Bannerman (2022/2024).
How healthy is Bannerman?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).