Around Ozerna, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.2 years on average: women 83.6, men 78.8, in 2022/2024. What sets Ozerna apart within its region is distance, and at 2.8 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Ozerna grades B for health, #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Ozerna
Pharmacies close at hand
With 9.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.8 km off, Ozerna is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Ozerna 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: #273 of 474 in Alberta and #1,588 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 2.8 km from the average home in Ozerna
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ozerna’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Ozerna 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Ozerna’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Ozerna belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 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.
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Ozerna’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.
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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 51% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 24%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Ozerna is 14th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,153 to 4,282 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 3 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 12 | Killarney AB B+ | 4,165 | 2.6 km | 51% |
| 13 | Jackson Heights AB B | 4,195 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 14 | Ozerna AB B | 4,216 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 15 | Patterson AB A+ | 4,169 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 16 | Calder AB B | 4,221 | 3.6 km | 51% |
| 40 | Simonds NB D | 4,263 | 21 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Ozerna
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ozerna | 2.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Mayliewan 0.9 km | 3.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Matt Berry 1.1 km | 2.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Kilkenny 1.4 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Belle Rive 1.4 km | 4.3 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Crystallina Nera East 1.5 km | 4.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| McConachie 1.6 km | 3.4 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Only the hospital column is local here: Ozerna 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Ozerna itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Ozerna
How is Ozerna’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Ozerna’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Ozerna?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Ozerna (2022/2024).
How healthy is Ozerna?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Ozerna from a hospital?
Residents of Ozerna have a pharmacy 0.8 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).