Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainPeople in Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s health region live to 78.8 on average, 2.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 24 km from the average resident of Electoral Area H, Cariboo, and 31% live more than 30 km away. The Health grade for Electoral Area H, Cariboo is C−.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area H, Cariboo
Far from a hospital
Distance is Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s own health question: 31% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.1), Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s region loses years: 78.8 where the trend says 80.5. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Electoral Area H, Cariboo, a pharmacy is 23 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area H, 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.
The nearest hospital is 24 km from the average home in Electoral Area H, Cariboo
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area H, Cariboo, weighted by who lives there.
From Electoral Area H, 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.
1.7 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s lies below the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s region’s: 78.8 years where the line expects 80.5 at 3.1. 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
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
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 33%, 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
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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 13th place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
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 H, 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.
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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 52% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Electoral Area H, 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 H, Cariboo | 24 km | 48% | 78.8 | C− |
| Mile 108 Recreational Ranch 18 km | 15 km | 48% | 78.8 | C |
Only the hospital column is local here: Electoral Area H, Cariboo and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Electoral Area H, Cariboo
How far is Electoral Area H, Cariboo from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Electoral Area H, Cariboo is 23 km from a clinic and 23 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area H, Cariboo?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s health region only: 81.8 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Electoral Area H, Cariboo?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area H, Cariboo’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).