Photo: The original uploader was DataSatan at English Wikipedia . · Public domainLives run shorter around Two Hills County No. 21: 79.1 years, 2.4 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Alberta as a whole is at 53%. What sets Two Hills County No. 21 apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 14 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Two Hills County No. 21 is C, #424 of 474 in Alberta and #2,292 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Two Hills County No. 21
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Two Hills County No. 21 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 9.3 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Two Hills County No. 21 is well above the typical town’s; 12% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Two Hills County No. 21 takes a trip of 32 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Two Hills County No. 21’s neighbourhoods average 4.5 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Two Hills County No. 21 grades C 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: #424 of 474 in Alberta and #2,292 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 14 km from the average home in Two Hills County No. 21
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Two Hills County No. 21’s own, not the region’s.
From Two Hills County No. 21 that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Alberta, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.9% 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
At 39%, self-reported obesity is above Alberta’s 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.
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
Life expectancy in Alberta runs from 78.3 to 83.0; this region sits 3rd 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 Two Hills County No. 21’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Two Hills County No. 21’s dot is marked, under the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 3.3, Two Hills County No. 21’s region’s 79.1 years sit under the line’s 79.9. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2. Households here earn around $85,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
The region’s 54% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Alberta’s 52%, with 22% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Two Hills County No. 21 comes 27th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,575 to 3,678 people, median 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Eaglemere MB B+ | 3,631 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 25 | Prince Albert No. 461 SK D | 3,589 | 9.9 km | 47% |
| 26 | WestLake-Gladstone MB B− | 3,604 | 11 km | 51% |
| 27 | Two Hills County No. 21 AB C | 3,626 | 14 km | 52% |
| 28 | Piedmont QC A | 3,667 | 15 km | 60% |
| 29 | Electoral Area F, Bulkley-Nechako BC D | 3,643 | 17 km | 39% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Two Hills County No. 21
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Two Hills County No. 21 | 14 km | 52% | 79.1 | C |
| Two Hills 9.5 km | 0.6 km | 52% | 79.1 | B− |
One health region covers Two Hills County No. 21 and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Two Hills is the closest to care, 0.6 km to Two Hills County No. 21’s 14 km.
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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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 Two Hills County No. 21’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Two Hills County No. 21
What is the life expectancy in Two Hills County No. 21?
Women in Two Hills County No. 21’s region live to 81.7 on average and men to 76.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Two Hills County No. 21 from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 32 km from the average resident of Two Hills County No. 21, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Two Hills County No. 21’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Two Hills County No. 21’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Two Hills County No. 21?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
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).