Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainLives run shorter around Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay: 79.5 years, 2.0 below the typical Canadian town’s region
In the health survey, 55% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than British Columbia’s 50%. Measured from where Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay a grade of B+, #148 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,415 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 3.3 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay takes a trip of 17 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (5.5%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay grades B+ 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: #148 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,415 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.
Getting to hospital from Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay, weighted by who lives there.
From Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay 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. The centre of population is 3.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 17 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 5.5% 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, 28%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 28% 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.
The region lives 1.4 years less than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s region comes out below the trend.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 3.0 would suggest 80.9 years, but Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s region stops at 79.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 80.3 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.
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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 11th 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 E, Central Kootenay’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.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more 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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 48% very good or excellent against 49% for British Columbia; stress is a daily matter for 22%.
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 E, Central Kootenay is 32nd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,237 to 4,380 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 30 | Oka QC A | 4,312 | 15 km | 60% |
| 31 | East Angus QC A | 4,261 | 16 km | 57% |
| 32 | Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay BC B+ | 4,309 | 17 km | 55% |
| 33 | Richmond County, Subdivision A NS D | 4,305 | 17 km | 49% |
| 34 | White City SK B− | 4,379 | 17 km | 49% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay
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 E, Central Kootenay | 17 km | 55% | 79.5 | B+ |
| Nelson 3.2 km | 1.3 km | 55% | 79.5 | A |
| Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay 7.5 km | 10 km | 55% | 79.5 | A− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Nelson live nearer a hospital, at 1.3 km against 17 km in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay
How far is Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay from a hospital?
A clinic is 15 km from the average resident of Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay and a pharmacy 17 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay?
Women in Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 76.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Electoral Area E, Central Kootenay?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 14% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).