Photo: Darren Kirby from Penticton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Campbell River’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.0 years: life expectancy 79.5
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 50% for British Columbia. What sets Campbell River apart within its region is distance, and at 3.1 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Health gives Campbell River a grade of A−, #130 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,052 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Campbell River
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would give Campbell River’s region about 81.4 years; it stops at 79.5. For its deprivation ↓
Less chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 24% report high blood pressure and 6.6% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Campbell River 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: #130 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,052 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.
1.9 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Campbell River’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Campbell River’s region’s: 79.5 years where the line expects 81.4 at 2.8. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 81.2 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.6%
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
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 29%, the province 25%.
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 to hospital from Campbell River: 3.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Campbell River, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Campbell River is ordinary: 4.4 km is the typical figure in British Columbia, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
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
The region comes 11th of 16 in British Columbia, where life expectancy runs from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Campbell River 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (52% against 49%), while 22% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Campbell River is 24th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (35,444 to 40,728 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 22 | Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf QC A+ | 37,164 | 2.8 km | 62% |
| 23 | Erin Mills ON A− | 39,194 | 2.9 km | 49% |
| 24 | Campbell River BC A− | 38,300 | 3.1 km | 54% |
| 25 | Sorel-Tracy QC A | 36,537 | 3.4 km | 55% |
| 26 | Beverley Glen ON A | 38,720 | 3.5 km | 51% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Campbell River
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Campbell River | 3.1 km | 54% | 79.5 | A− |
| Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona 9.5 km | 12 km | 54% | 79.5 | B+ |
| Electoral Area C, Strathcona 9.5 km | 11 km | 54% | 79.5 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Campbell River’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona is the furthest from care, 12 km to Campbell River’s 3.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Campbell River itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Campbell River
What is the life expectancy in Campbell River?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Campbell River’s health region only: 82.3 years for women and 76.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Campbell River’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Campbell River has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Campbell River?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Campbell River from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Campbell River live: 1.6 km to a clinic, 1.5 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).