Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Hazeldean’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.5 km from the average resident of Hazeldean, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Hazeldean a grade of B, #292 of 474 in Alberta and #1,635 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Hazeldean
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Hazeldean at 4.1 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Hazeldean can reach 16 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.4 km off. 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.
Hazeldean 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: #292 of 474 in Alberta and #1,635 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 3.5 km from the average home in Hazeldean
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hazeldean’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Hazeldean here: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Alberta, where life expectancy runs from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
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 Hazeldean’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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Hazeldean’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Hazeldean belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, sits within a few points of Alberta (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.
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
Asked about their mental health, 51% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Alberta it was 52%, and 24% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Hazeldean is 16th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,196 to 3,305 people, median 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 14 | Seven Oaks MB B+ | 3,244 | 3.2 km | 52% |
| 15 | Holyrood AB B | 3,305 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 16 | Hazeldean AB B | 3,247 | 3.5 km | 51% |
| 17 | Beverly Heights AB B | 3,252 | 3.7 km | 51% |
| 18 | Point Road MB B+ | 3,290 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 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 Hazeldean
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hazeldean | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ritchie 1.3 km | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Avonmore 1.5 km | 4.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Bonnie Doon 2.2 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Allendale 2.3 km | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Strathcona 2.5 km | 2.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Queen Alexandra 2.6 km | 1.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
Hazeldean and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Hazeldean’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Hazeldean
How is Hazeldean’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Hazeldean’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Hazeldean?
Women in Hazeldean’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Hazeldean?
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 far is Hazeldean from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.4 km from the average resident of Hazeldean, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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).