Photo: Amqui · CC BY-SA 4.0People in Wainwright No. 61’s health region live to 79.1 on average, 2.4 years short of the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 52% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Alberta’s 53%. Closer to home, a hospital is 20 km from the average resident of Wainwright No. 61, further than the usual 3.7 km. Wainwright No. 61 grades C− for health, #434 of 474 in Alberta and #2,348 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wainwright No. 61
A long way to hospital
Distance is Wainwright No. 61’s own health question: 22% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 4.4 km. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Wainwright No. 61 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 12% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 42 km from the average home in Wainwright No. 61, so prescriptions mean a drive. 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.
Wainwright No. 61 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: #434 of 474 in Alberta and #2,348 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 20 km from the average home in Wainwright No. 61
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Wainwright No. 61’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Alberta and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Wainwright No. 61 is on the far side. The centre of population is 4.4 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 20 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (8.9%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Wainwright No. 61’s region comes out below the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.3, the expected figure is 79.9 years, and Wainwright No. 61’s region falls below with 79.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 81.2 years). 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.
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
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 5 in Alberta, on a scale from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Wainwright No. 61’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Alberta (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
On mental health the region tracks Alberta, 54% very good or excellent to 52%; 22% 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.
Wainwright No. 61 is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,486 to 4,657 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Country Hills ON A | 4,561 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Eastmount ON B+ | 4,496 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | Raymond AB B | 4,594 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 34 | Warner County No. 5 AB C+ | 4,533 | 18 km | 52% |
| 35 | Saint-Anselme QC B+ | 4,534 | 19 km | 59% |
| 36 | Wainwright No. 61 AB C− | 4,576 | 20 km | 52% |
| 37 | Neuville QC A | 4,579 | 23 km | 62% |
| 38 | Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola BC C− | 4,540 | 28 km | 48% |
| 40 | Casselman ON C− | 4,535 | 32 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Wainwright No. 61
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wainwright No. 61 | 20 km | 52% | 79.1 | C− |
| Wainwright 4.2 km | 1.3 km | 52% | 79.1 | C+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Wainwright No. 61’s regional figures. Wainwright is the closest to care, 1.3 km to Wainwright No. 61’s 20 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Wainwright No. 61’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wainwright No. 61
How far is Wainwright No. 61 from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 42 km from the average resident of Wainwright No. 61, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Wainwright No. 61?
There is no figure for Wainwright No. 61 alone; its health region’s is 81.7 for women and 76.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Wainwright No. 61’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 Wainwright No. 61’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Wainwright No. 61?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
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).