Photo: Wakasui · CC0Health in Holdom beats 91% of Canadian towns
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 48% very good or excellent, 50% for British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.4 km from the average resident of Holdom, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Holdom a grade of A, #68 of 254 in British Columbia and #557 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Holdom
A long-lived region
Holdom’s region sits 2.9 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs low
Smoking is rarer around Holdom than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 5.7% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Holdom: 1.5 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 18 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.2 km off, Holdom is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Holdom 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: #68 of 254 in British Columbia and #557 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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in British Columbia, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Holdom’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.1%
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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 19% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs under the province, 16% to 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.4 km from the average home in Holdom
Straight-line distances from each part of Holdom, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Holdom 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.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Holdom’s, follows the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Holdom belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.0 predicts: 84.4 years, the trend 84.5. 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 49% and 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
Mental health is close to the province’s: 51% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Holdom is 7th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,839 to 8,100 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Broadview BC A | 8,008 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Queen Mary Park AB B+ | 7,958 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Shaughnessy BC A+ | 8,034 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 5 | Killarney/Glengarry AB A+ | 7,935 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 6 | Woodbine-Lumsden ON A | 7,928 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 7 | Holdom BC A | 7,976 | 1.4 km | 48% |
| 8 | Labrador City NL C+ | 7,965 | 1.5 km | 60% |
| 9 | Al Ritchie SK B+ | 8,087 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 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 Holdom
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Holdom’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Holdom itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
Questions about health in Holdom
What is the life expectancy in Holdom?
Women in Holdom’s region live to 86.6 on average and men to 82.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Holdom?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Holdom from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Holdom live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 1.2 km to a pharmacy.
How is Holdom’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Holdom has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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).