Life expectancy around Electoral Area B, Cariboo is 76.6 years, 4.9 less than for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 39%, behind the 50% for British Columbia. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Electoral Area B, Cariboo’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Electoral Area B, Cariboo grades C− for health, #243 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,440 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area B, Cariboo
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 12.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (39% as answered). Health survey ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; Electoral Area B, Cariboo’s region, at 76.6, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Electoral Area B, Cariboo the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 26% report high blood pressure and 10% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area B, Cariboo grades C− 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: #243 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,440 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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 39% very good or excellent, against 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
On mental health the region is behind British Columbia, 40% very good or excellent to 49%; 28% 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.7 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Electoral Area B, Cariboo’s region is below the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Electoral Area B, Cariboo’s region, at 3.7, should live about 78.3 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 76.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 78.5 years). Judged by income, around $87,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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 11 km from the average home in Electoral Area B, Cariboo
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area B, Cariboo, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Electoral Area B, Cariboo travel further 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.
High blood pressure for 26% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
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 41%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
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
No region of the 16 in British Columbia has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 86.8, a gap of 10.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Electoral Area B, Cariboo 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.
Electoral Area B, Cariboo is 34th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,103 to 4,237 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 2 | Sunalta AB A+ | 4,151 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 3 | Balfour ON B | 4,171 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 32 | Spring Valley ON B− | 4,175 | 8.8 km | 53% |
| 33 | Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay BC A− | 4,209 | 10 km | 55% |
| 34 | Electoral Area B, Cariboo BC C− | 4,169 | 11 km | 39% |
| 35 | L'Ange-Gardien QC A+ | 4,106 | 13 km | 62% |
| 36 | Carleton-sur-Mer QC C+ | 4,175 | 13 km | 56% |
| 40 | Northern Lights County AB D− | 4,115 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area B, Cariboo
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area B, Cariboo | 11 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
| Quesnel 11 km | 2.1 km | 39% | 76.6 | C |
| Electoral Area C, Cariboo 15 km | 12 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
| Electoral Area A, Cariboo 17 km | 8.0 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
| Electoral Area I, Cariboo 19 km | 25 km | 39% | 76.6 | D |
Only the hospital column is local here: Electoral Area B, Cariboo and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Electoral Area I, Cariboo live further from a hospital, at 25 km against 11 km in Electoral Area B, Cariboo.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Electoral Area B, Cariboo shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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 Electoral Area B, Cariboo
How healthy is Electoral Area B, Cariboo?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area B, Cariboo?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 79.5 for women, 74.0 for men around Electoral Area B, Cariboo (2022/2024).
How far is Electoral Area B, Cariboo from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area B, Cariboo have a clinic 11 km away on average and a pharmacy 11 km away, in straight lines.
How is Electoral Area B, Cariboo’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area B, Cariboo: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).