51% of adults around Silver Berry rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.2, with women at 83.6 and men at 78.8. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Silver Berry live 3.1 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Silver Berry a grade of B, #282 of 474 in Alberta and #1,604 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Silver Berry
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Silver Berry can reach 6.0 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.7 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.
Silver Berry 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: #282 of 474 in Alberta and #1,604 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 3.1 km from the average home in Silver Berry
Straight-line distances from each part of Silver Berry, weighted by who lives there.
Nothing unusual for Silver Berry 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
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Silver Berry’s, follows the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Silver Berry’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. 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.
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 is close to the province’s level, 33% of adults against 32% for 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Alberta
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Silver Berry’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
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
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.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Silver Berry comes 20th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,247 to 9,653 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North London ON A− | 9,584 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Daniel McIntyre MB B+ | 9,584 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Rustic ON A | 9,543 | 0.9 km | 50% |
| 18 | Centrepointe - Briargreen ON A | 9,259 | 3.0 km | 56% |
| 19 | Lakelands Village ON A− | 9,636 | 3.1 km | 49% |
| 20 | Silver Berry AB B | 9,439 | 3.1 km | 51% |
| 21 | Avalon SK B+ | 9,488 | 3.2 km | 49% |
| 22 | Walsh Acres/Lakeridge/Garden Ridge SK B | 9,325 | 3.2 km | 49% |
| 40 | Castlegar BC B | 9,465 | 21 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Silver Berry
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Silver Berry 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Silver Berry shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
Questions about health in Silver Berry
How is Silver Berry’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Silver Berry’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Silver Berry?
Women in Silver Berry’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Silver Berry?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Silver Berry from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Silver Berry is 0.7 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).