Photo: Rowanswiki · CC0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Ottewell’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. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Ottewell live 4.1 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Ottewell a grade of B, #306 of 474 in Alberta and #1,674 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ottewell
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Ottewell can reach 8.5 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 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.
Ottewell 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: #306 of 474 in Alberta and #1,674 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.
Getting to hospital from Ottewell: 4.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ottewell’s own, not the region’s.
Ottewell is near the provincial norm, 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta, with 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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Ottewell’s, follows the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Ottewell’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.
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
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.
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Ottewell’s 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.
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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 51% very good or excellent to 52%; 24% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Ottewell is 20th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,920 to 8,168 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Wolseley MB B+ | 8,127 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 18 | South Pointe MB B+ | 8,168 | 3.5 km | 52% |
| 19 | Charlesworth AB B | 8,135 | 3.9 km | 51% |
| 20 | Ottewell AB B | 8,040 | 4.1 km | 51% |
| 21 | Morgan Creek BC A | 8,084 | 4.1 km | 50% |
| 22 | Jackson ON B+ | 8,124 | 4.4 km | 52% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ottewell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ottewell | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Holyrood 1.1 km | 3.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Gold Bar 1.9 km | 4.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Forest Heights 1.9 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| King Edward Park 1.9 km | 5.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Capilano 2.2 km | 3.0 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Bonnie Doon 2.6 km | 3.5 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Ottewell 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
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Ottewell shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Ottewell
How is Ottewell’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Ottewell has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Ottewell?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Ottewell’s health region only: 83.6 years for women and 78.8 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Ottewell?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Ottewell from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Ottewell is 0.5 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).