Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Capilano 5 scores better for health than almost every Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 59% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital sits 4.5 km from the average resident of Capilano 5, about the norm of 3.7 km. As a First Nations reserve, Capilano 5 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Capilano 5. Capilano 5 grades A+ for health.
What stands out about health in Capilano 5
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Capilano 5 is well below the typical town’s; 3.7% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Capilano 5 runs 2.8 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 22.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 16% of adults, diabetes for 4%. Conditions and habits ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 7.6 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (59% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Capilano 5 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.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (16%) and diabetes (4%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
On weight the region is ordinary for British Columbia: 23% report obesity, the province 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% 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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
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
This region is 3rd 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Capilano 5’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
59% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more than in British Columbia (50%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 55% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.4 years behind the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Capilano 5’s lies below the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Capilano 5’s region, at 1.7, should live about 85.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 84.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 83.5 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 nearest hospital is 4.5 km from the average home in Capilano 5
Straight-line distances from each part of Capilano 5, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Capilano 5 goes.
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.
Health in the places around Capilano 5
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Capilano 5 | 4.5 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Coal Harbour 3.8 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
| West End 3.9 km | 1.0 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
| West Vancouver 4.0 km | 7.5 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| North Vancouver 4.4 km | 1.1 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Davie Village 4.5 km | 0.5 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
| Granville Entertainment District 5.1 km | 0.5 km | 50% | 83.3 | A+ |
Across a regional line, Coal Harbour has its own figures: life expectancy 83.3, against 84.3 here. Davie Village is the closest to care, 0.5 km to Capilano 5’s 4.5 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Capilano 5 alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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 Capilano 5
How healthy is Capilano 5?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 12% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Capilano 5?
There is no figure for Capilano 5 alone; its health region’s is 86.3 for women and 82.3 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Capilano 5’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Capilano 5: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
How far is Capilano 5 from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Capilano 5 live: 1.0 km to a clinic, 0.3 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).