Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Belle Rive’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Belle Rive live 4.3 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Belle Rive is B, #310 of 474 in Alberta and #1,682 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Belle Rive
Plenty of pharmacies
With 10 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Belle Rive 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.
Belle Rive 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: #310 of 474 in Alberta and #1,682 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.
The nearest hospital is 4.3 km from the average home in Belle Rive
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Belle Rive’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, Belle Rive 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Belle Rive’s region comes out on the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Belle Rive’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. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 4 above and 4 below; their median is 81.2 years.
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
At 33%, self-reported obesity is near 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Belle Rive’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
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: 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
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Belle Rive is 19th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,874 to 4,030 people, median 5.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Stinson ON B+ | 3,969 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 2 | Leila North MB B+ | 3,966 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | Fort Macleod AB B | 3,945 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 17 | Bridgeport East ON A | 3,903 | 3.0 km | 53% |
| 18 | Lisgar ON B | 3,945 | 3.5 km | 53% |
| 19 | Belle Rive AB B | 3,946 | 4.3 km | 51% |
| 20 | Maple AB B | 3,920 | 5.3 km | 51% |
| 21 | Haddow AB B | 4,026 | 5.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Forty Mile County No. 8 AB C | 3,927 | 29 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Belle Rive
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belle Rive | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Mayliewan 0.5 km | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Eaux Claires 1.1 km | 4.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Evansdale 1.4 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ozerna 1.4 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Lago Lindo 1.6 km | 5.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Kilkenny 1.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Belle Rive’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Belle Rive itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Belle Rive
What is the life expectancy in Belle Rive?
For the health region that includes Belle Rive, women can expect 83.6 years and men 78.8 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Belle Rive?
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%.
How is Belle Rive’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Belle Rive: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Belle Rive from a hospital?
Residents of Belle Rive have a pharmacy 0.9 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).