51% of adults around Cumberland rate their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.2 years at birth, 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is 6.2 km from the average resident of Cumberland, further than the usual 3.7 km. Cumberland grades B for health, #355 of 474 in Alberta and #1,779 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cumberland
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Cumberland can reach 10 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.9 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cumberland 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: #355 of 474 in Alberta and #1,779 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 6.2 km from the average home in Cumberland
Straight-line distances from each part of Cumberland, weighted by who lives there.
Cumberland is further out 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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Cumberland’s, follows the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Cumberland’s region is a typical case: 81.2 years at a score of 2.8, where the trend says 81.4. 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
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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
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
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Cumberland’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta (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 reads like the rest of Alberta: 51% against 52%, and 24% under quite a bit of stress 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, Cumberland is 28th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,402 to 6,577 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beechborough-Greenbrook ON A | 6,419 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 2 | Petrolia ON B− | 6,422 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 3 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 26 | Tweed ON C− | 6,504 | 6.0 km | 45% |
| 27 | Royalwood MB B | 6,439 | 6.1 km | 52% |
| 28 | Cumberland AB B | 6,493 | 6.2 km | 51% |
| 29 | Kings County, Subdivision D NS C− | 6,517 | 7.1 km | 44% |
| 30 | Pointe-Calumet QC A | 6,427 | 7.8 km | 60% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cumberland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cumberland | 6.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Hudson 0.7 km | 5.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Carlton 1.1 km | 5.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Oxford 1.1 km | 6.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Wellington 1.3 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Caernarvon 1.5 km | 5.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Carlisle 1.9 km | 5.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Cumberland’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Cumberland shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cumberland
How is Cumberland’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Cumberland’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Cumberland from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Cumberland is 0.9 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Cumberland?
There is no figure for Cumberland alone; its health region’s is 83.6 for women and 78.8 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Cumberland?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).