Around Bulyea Heights, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.2 on average: 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Bulyea Heights apart within its region is distance, and at 3.0 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Bulyea Heights a grade of B, #278 of 474 in Alberta and #1,598 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bulyea Heights
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.0 out of 5, Bulyea Heights sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bulyea Heights 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: #278 of 474 in Alberta and #1,598 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.
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
Of the 5 health regions in Alberta, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 78.3 and a high of 83.0.
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 Bulyea Heights’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Bulyea Heights’ dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Bulyea Heights’ region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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
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.
The nearest hospital is 3.0 km from the average home in Bulyea Heights
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bulyea Heights’ own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Bulyea Heights goes. 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.
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
Stress touches 24% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Alberta).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Bulyea Heights is 14th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,219 to 3,317 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Jasper Park AB B+ | 3,219 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 12 | Normanhurst ON B | 3,260 | 2.8 km | 53% |
| 13 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska QC A | 3,307 | 3.0 km | 61% |
| 14 | Bulyea Heights AB B | 3,264 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 15 | Seven Oaks MB B+ | 3,244 | 3.2 km | 52% |
| 16 | Holyrood AB B | 3,305 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bulyea Heights
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bulyea Heights | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Brookside 1.2 km | 1.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Westbrook Estates 1.4 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Ramsay Heights 1.6 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rhatigan Ridge 1.9 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Leger 2.0 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ogilvie Ridge 2.0 km | 3.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Bulyea Heights and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Bulyea Heights alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Bulyea Heights
How is Bulyea Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Bulyea Heights’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Bulyea Heights?
Women in Bulyea Heights’ region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Bulyea Heights?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Bulyea Heights from a hospital?
For everyday care, Bulyea Heights’ residents are 2.1 km from a pharmacy on average.
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).