Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Brintnell’s health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. What sets Brintnell apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 2.0 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Brintnell grades B+ for health, #237 of 474 in Alberta and #1,495 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Brintnell
Plenty of pharmacies
With 6.0 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Brintnell 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.
Brintnell 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: #237 of 474 in Alberta and #1,495 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 Brintnell, a hospital is 2.0 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Brintnell’s own, not the region’s.
Brintnell is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Alberta, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Brintnell’s region is near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.4 years, and Brintnell’s region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.4%)
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
Obesity tracks the province: 33% of adults here, 32% across Alberta.
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.
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 2nd 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 Brintnell’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Alberta: 52% to 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 24% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Alberta’s 52%.
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: Brintnell comes 12th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,531 to 6,786 people, median 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 10 | Corman ON B | 6,566 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 11 | Sackville NB B− | 6,572 | 2.0 km | 43% |
| 12 | Brintnell AB B+ | 6,658 | 2.0 km | 51% |
| 13 | Weston MB B+ | 6,661 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 14 | Massey Place SK B+ | 6,561 | 2.2 km | 49% |
| 40 | Barrington NS D− | 6,720 | 36 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Brintnell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brintnell | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Hollick-Kenyon 0.8 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Miller 1.1 km | 0.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Cy Becker 1.4 km | 2.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Casselman 1.5 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Matt Berry 1.6 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Kirkness 1.7 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Same region, same survey: Brintnell’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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 Brintnell’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- 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 Brintnell
How is Brintnell’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Brintnell’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Brintnell from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 1.0 km from the average resident of Brintnell, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Brintnell?
Women in Brintnell’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Brintnell?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. 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).