Health in Burnaby · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Burnaby is 84.4 years, 2.9 more than for the typical Canadian town
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across British Columbia, 48% against 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Burnaby live 2.7 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. At 7.5%, the share of adults who smoke is close to the 8.9% for British Columbia.
British Columbia: 50% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
15%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Smoking is rarer around Burnaby than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 5.7% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 18 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Burnaby is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Health Grade
No Health grade for Burnaby yet
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against Canadian towns.
48%
very good or excellent health, region (typical town 52%)
15%
chronic conditions, region (typical town 17%)
7.5%
smokers, region (typical town 12%)
84.4
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
2.7 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (7.1%)
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
16%
Diabetes
7.1%
Obese (self-reported)
19%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
7.5%
Smoke every day
5.7%
Heavy drinking
16%
British Columbia
Self-reported obesity, 19%, trails British Columbia (25%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 16% to the province’s 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.
Getting care
From Burnaby, a hospital is 2.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Burnaby’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.7 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
18 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
From Burnaby that is nearer than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Burnaby’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.0, the expected figure is 84.5 years, and Burnaby’s region matches it closely with 84.4. It outlives 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 regions in British Columbia
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
84.4
years at birth, 2022/2024
22.6
more years expected at 65
2nd
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
This region is 2nd longest-lived of 16 in British Columbia, on a scale from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.5
Economic dependency2.6
Ethno-cultural composition4.9
Situational vulnerability2.1
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Burnaby’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
49% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to British Columbia (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
Health very good or excellent
49%
Health fair or poor
17%
Mental health very good or excellent
51%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
58%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
Mental health reads like the rest of British Columbia: 51% against 49%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Burnaby
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Nothing in the regional columns separates Burnaby from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
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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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Burnaby shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Burnaby
Does Burnaby have a Health grade?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Burnaby’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Burnaby?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 86.6 for women, 82.1 for men around Burnaby (2022/2024).
How healthy is Burnaby?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is Burnaby from a hospital?
Residents of Burnaby have a clinic 1.1 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.6 km away, in straight lines.
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