Around Cameron Heights, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.6 and men to 78.8, 81.2 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Cameron Heights’ is long: 5.6 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Cameron Heights grades B for health, #342 of 474 in Alberta and #1,745 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cameron Heights
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.1 out of 5, Cameron Heights sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Cameron 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: #342 of 474 in Alberta and #1,745 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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 5 regions in Alberta, from 78.3 to 83.0 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Cameron Heights’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Cameron Heights’ lies 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 Cameron Heights’ region matches it closely with 81.2. 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.
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
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.
From Cameron Heights, a hospital is 5.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Cameron Heights’ own, not the region’s.
From Cameron Heights that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
Mental health is no outlier: 51% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 24% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Cameron Heights is 21st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,657 to 3,767 people, median 5.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 19 | Country Hills AB A | 3,702 | 4.8 km | 56% |
| 20 | Golf Course ON B | 3,741 | 4.9 km | 53% |
| 21 | Cameron Heights AB B | 3,710 | 5.6 km | 51% |
| 22 | Westville NS D | 3,731 | 5.9 km | 42% |
| 23 | Ascot Corner QC A | 3,725 | 6.1 km | 57% |
| 40 | Powassan ON D | 3,657 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cameron 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cameron Heights | 5.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Rhatigan Ridge 2.2 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Haddow 2.5 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Jamieson Place 2.5 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| River Valley Oleskiw 2.9 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Edgemont 3.1 km | 6.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ormsby Place 3.3 km | 3.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Every place around Cameron Heights shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cameron Heights itself is the trip to care.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cameron Heights
How far is Cameron Heights from a hospital?
Residents of Cameron Heights have a pharmacy 2.4 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Cameron Heights?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Cameron Heights’ health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Cameron Heights?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How is Cameron Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cameron Heights: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).