Health & wellness
BY ERIC WEILBACHER
Health & Wellness Edition 2025
Readers, welcome to your annual CI Health & Wellness Edition! This brand new guide features the latest updates on health and wellness resources in the Northeast Metrocom area, along with trends in achieving a healthier lifestyle. We provide a breakdown on local water quality and a hiking trails guide. On a personal note, this is my last issue to helm as editor for the Northeast San Antonio Metrocom Edition of Community Impact. I am moving on to focus on the North San Antonio Edition and assisting the launch of a Boerne Edition this spring. The paper will be left in good hands, as Reporter Amira Van Leeuwen steps into the editor role.
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County health data Comal and Guadalupe counties are fairing better than the average Texas county and better than the national average on health outcomes and health behavioral factors. Bexar County is roughly on par with the average Texas county on both counts.
Snapshot
Health data
Comal
Guadalupe
These are some of the statistics that in uence the overall health and wellness of the county.
Least healthy in US Healthiest in US
Bexar County
Health factor
Health outcome
N
Comal County
Guadalupe County 78.4 years
Bexar County
Health factors Health factors in uence how well and long people live within a community.
Texas
Life expectancy
78.3 years
76.7 years
77.2 years
Bexar County
Food insecurity
11%
11%
14%
14%
Comal County
Guadalupe County
6
6
6
6
Infant mortality
State average
National average
13%
14%
13%
13%
Adult smoking
20%
19%
18%
18%
Excessive drinking
Health outcomes Health outcomes demonstrate how long people live on average within a community.
71%
66%
89%
82%
Access to exercise opportunities
15%
15%
23%
20%
Uninsured (under age 65)
Guadalupe County Comal County
Ratio of population to primary care physicians
1,680:1
3,850:1
1,360:1
1,660:1
Bexar County
Ratio of population to mental health providers
590:1
1,920:1
430:1
640:1
State average National average
Sleep fewer than 7 hours on average
31%
36%
37%
33%
Adult obesity
NOTE: THE DATA FOR ALL COUNTIES STATEWIDE IS UPDATED ANNUALLY, BUT INCLUDES INFORMATION FROM PREVIOUS YEARS. SOURCE: COUNTY HEALTH RANKINGS AND ROADMAPS COMMUNITY IMPACT
31%
38%
39%
36%
Poor or fair health
14%
17%
21%
18%
11
NORTHEAST SAN ANTONIO METROCOM EDITION
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