Lives run shorter around Electoral Area F, Cariboo: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
In the health survey, 48% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. Closer to home, a hospital is 33 km from the average resident of Electoral Area F, Cariboo, and 51% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Electoral Area F, Cariboo is C−, #236 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,398 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area F, Cariboo
A long way to hospital
Distance is Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s own health question: 51% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 29 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Set against regions as deprived (3.1), Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s region loses years: 78.8 where the trend says 80.5. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 33 km from the average home in Electoral Area F, Cariboo, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Electoral Area F, 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: #236 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,398 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.
The nearest hospital is 33 km from the average home in Electoral Area F, Cariboo
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s own, not the region’s.
From Electoral Area F, 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.
The region lives 1.7 years less than its deprivation predicts
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s, lies beneath the trend.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Electoral Area F, Cariboo belongs to lives less long than its score of 3.1 predicts: 78.8 years, where the trend gives 80.5. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 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.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
The region comes 13th 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 52% very good or excellent to 49%; 23% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Electoral Area F, Cariboo is 40th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,938 to 5,100 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount AB B+ | 4,961 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Altona MB B | 4,989 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 38 | Gibsons BC A+ | 5,090 | 19 km | 59% |
| 39 | Saint-Donat QC B | 5,087 | 29 km | 56% |
| 40 | Electoral Area F, Cariboo BC C− | 5,016 | 33 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Electoral Area F, Cariboo itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area F, Cariboo
How far is Electoral Area F, Cariboo from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area F, Cariboo have a clinic 33 km away on average and a pharmacy 33 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area F, Cariboo?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s health region only: 81.8 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How is Electoral Area F, Cariboo’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Electoral Area F, Cariboo has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Electoral Area F, Cariboo?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).