People in Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s health region live to 78.8 on average, 2.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 48%, behind the 50% for British Columbia. Measured from where Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Electoral Area D, Cariboo grades C for health, #220 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,251 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area D, Cariboo
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
At 78.8 years, Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s region trails the 80.5 that regions scoring 3.1 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s own health question: 17% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 6.2 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.0 out of 5, Electoral Area D, Cariboo sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area D, 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: #220 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,251 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.7 years of life
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Where residents average 3.1 on the index, regions tend to reach 80.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Electoral Area D, Cariboo belongs to trails at 78.8. Among the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, every one does better; they centre on 80.9 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.
Getting to hospital from Electoral Area D, Cariboo: 12 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area D, Cariboo, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Electoral Area D, 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
Ranked 13th of 16 in British Columbia: the regions span 76.6 to 86.8 years at birth.
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; Electoral Area D, Cariboo’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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 22% to the province’s 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.
47% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (52% against 49%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Electoral Area D, Cariboo is 31st of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,005 to 3,100 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.0 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 29 | Saint-Dominique QC A | 3,062 | 10 km | 55% |
| 30 | Lac-des-Écorces QC A | 3,005 | 11 km | 60% |
| 31 | Electoral Area D, Cariboo BC C | 3,057 | 12 km | 48% |
| 32 | Admaston/Bromley ON C | 3,086 | 14 km | 50% |
| 33 | Athens ON C+ | 3,078 | 14 km | 51% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area D, Cariboo
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area D, Cariboo | 12 km | 48% | 78.8 | C |
| Williams Lake 6.4 km | 1.7 km | 48% | 78.8 | C+ |
| Electoral Area E, Cariboo 13 km | 9.3 km | 48% | 78.8 | C+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Electoral Area D, Cariboo and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Williams Lake live nearer a hospital, at 1.7 km against 12 km in Electoral Area D, Cariboo.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area D, Cariboo alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Electoral Area D, Cariboo
How is Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area D, Cariboo’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area D, Cariboo?
For the health region that includes Electoral Area D, Cariboo, women can expect 81.8 years and men 76.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Electoral Area D, Cariboo from a hospital?
A clinic is 12 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, Cariboo and a pharmacy 12 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Electoral Area D, Cariboo?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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).