Health in Wabamun 133A · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Wabamun 133A sits a long way from hospital care: 28 km for the average resident
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Alberta as a whole reaches 53%. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 25 km away on average (0.0 within 3 km). As a First Nations reserve, Wabamun 133A can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Wabamun 133A itself. Wabamun 133A grades C+ for health.
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 25 km from the average home in Wabamun 133A, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Wabamun 133A sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Health Grade
Wabamun 133A 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.2)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (28 km)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
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.
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 care
Everyday care in Wabamun 133A: the nearest pharmacy 25 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wabamun 133A’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
28 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
28 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
25 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Wabamun 133A travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
81.2
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 5 regions in Alberta
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Calgary Zone83.0
Edmonton Zone81.2
Central Zone79.1
South Zone78.7
North Zone78.3
Ranked 2nd of 5 in Alberta: the regions span 78.3 to 83.0 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.4
Economic dependency3.4
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Wabamun 133A’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Wabamun 133A’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.8 about 81.4 years; Wabamun 133A’s region’s 81.2 is within a year of it. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
7.4%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
17%
Alberta
On weight the region is ordinary for Alberta: 33% report obesity, the province 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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 52% and 54%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
15%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
24%
Strong sense of belonging
57%
Satisfied with life
82%
Alberta
Neither ahead nor behind Alberta on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Wabamun 133A alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Wabamun 133A
How far is Wabamun 133A from a hospital?
For everyday care, Wabamun 133A’s residents are 25 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Wabamun 133A’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 Wabamun 133A’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
What is the life expectancy in Wabamun 133A?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.6 for women, 78.8 for men around Wabamun 133A (2022/2024).
How healthy is Wabamun 133A?
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%.