Photo: Trougnouf · CC BY 4.0Life expectancy around Electoral Area C, Cariboo is 76.6 years, 4.9 less than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 39% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. For Electoral Area C, Cariboo itself the measure is access, and it lags: 12 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Electoral Area C, Cariboo is C−.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area C, 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 ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s region reaches only 76.6. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 26% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area C, 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.
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.
39% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.7 years short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.7 about 78.3 years of life. Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s region falls short of it, at 76.6. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 78.5 years). Its towns’ household income, about $87,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 0.14).
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 12 km from the average home in Electoral Area C, Cariboo
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s own, not the region’s.
From Electoral Area C, Cariboo that is further than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (26%) and diabetes (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
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 41%, the province 25%. At 22%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the shortest-lived of the 16 regions in British Columbia, 10.2 years behind the first at 86.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Electoral Area C, 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 C, Cariboo | 12 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
| Quesnel 11 km | 2.1 km | 39% | 76.6 | C |
| Electoral Area A, Cariboo 13 km | 8.0 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
| Electoral Area B, Cariboo 15 km | 11 km | 39% | 76.6 | C− |
The neighbours all sit in Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Quesnel live nearer a hospital, at 2.1 km against 12 km in Electoral Area C, Cariboo.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area C, Cariboo alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Electoral Area C, Cariboo
How healthy is Electoral Area C, Cariboo?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area C, Cariboo?
Women in Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s region live to 79.5 on average and men to 74.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Electoral Area C, Cariboo’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Electoral Area C, Cariboo from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Electoral Area C, Cariboo is 12 km from a clinic and 12 km from 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).