Lives run shorter around Wetaskiwin County No. 10: 79.1 years, 2.4 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Self-rated health is ordinary for Alberta: 52% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 53%. For Wetaskiwin County No. 10 itself the measure is access, and it lags: 20 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Wetaskiwin County No. 10 a grade of C−, #437 of 474 in Alberta and #2,355 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Wetaskiwin County No. 10
A long way to hospital
Distance is Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s own health question: 20% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 36 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Around Wetaskiwin County No. 10, 12% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 30 km from the average home in Wetaskiwin County No. 10, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wetaskiwin County No. 10 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: #437 of 474 in Alberta and #2,355 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.
Getting to hospital from Wetaskiwin County No. 10: 20 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Wetaskiwin County No. 10, weighted by who lives there.
From Wetaskiwin County No. 10 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 centre of population is 36 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 20 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.
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
Self-reported obesity, 39%, tops 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s region is below the line.
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 Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s region falls below with 79.1. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 81.2 years. Its towns’ household income, about $85,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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 3rd 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Wetaskiwin County No. 10 itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Alberta: 51% to 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
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 54% very good or excellent against 52% for Alberta; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Wetaskiwin County No. 10 is 38th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,856 to 12,384 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Weyburn SK C− | 11,871 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 36 | Saint-Sauveur QC A | 12,112 | 17 km | 60% |
| 37 | Clearwater County AB C− | 11,856 | 20 km | 52% |
| 38 | Wetaskiwin County No. 10 AB C− | 12,117 | 20 km | 52% |
| 39 | Morrisburg ON C | 11,943 | 22 km | 49% |
| 40 | Mont-Tremblant QC A− | 11,879 | 25 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Wetaskiwin County No. 10 alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Wetaskiwin County No. 10
How far is Wetaskiwin County No. 10 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s residents are 30 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Wetaskiwin County No. 10?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s health region only: 81.7 years for women and 76.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Wetaskiwin County No. 10’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Wetaskiwin County No. 10 has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Wetaskiwin County No. 10?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).