Photo: Yuet Man Lee · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Broadview is ahead of 93% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in British Columbia (50%). What sets Broadview apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Broadview grades A for health, #57 of 254 in British Columbia and #412 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Broadview
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Broadview, a child can expect 2.9 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 22.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer smokers
Around Broadview, only 5.7% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Broadview: 0.3 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Broadview can reach 26 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.4 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Broadview grades A 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: #57 of 254 in British Columbia and #412 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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Broadview’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.1% diabetes
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 19%, self-reported obesity is below British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is rarer (16% against 19%).
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.
From Broadview, a hospital is 0.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Broadview’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Broadview are closer than most of the province: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Broadview’s, follows the trend.
At 2.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 84.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Broadview belongs to reaches 84.4. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores fall short of it (8 of 10, median 83.3 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.
Self-rated health much as in British Columbia: 49% to 50%
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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across British Columbia (51% against 49%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Broadview comes 1st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,877 to 8,147 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Wolseley MB B+ | 8,127 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Clare NS D− | 8,020 | 38 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Broadview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Broadview | 0.6 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Garden Village 1.6 km | 1.4 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Renfrew-Collingwood 1.6 km | 0.9 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
| Collingwood 2.0 km | 1.8 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
| Brentwood 2.2 km | 2.0 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Deer Lake 2.5 km | 2.3 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Norquay Village 2.7 km | 1.6 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Renfrew-Collingwood’s life expectancy is 83.3, this region’s 84.4.
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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Broadview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Broadview
How is Broadview’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 Broadview’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Broadview?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Broadview’s health region only: 86.6 years for women and 82.1 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Broadview?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Broadview from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Broadview live: 1.4 km to a clinic, 0.4 km to a pharmacy.
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).