Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainThe nearest hospital is 28 km from the average home in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay
Across the region, 55% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole manages 50%. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 27 km away on average (0.0 within 3 km). Health gives Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay a grade of B, #163 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,799 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay
Life expectancy below the norm
Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’s region sits 2.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay takes a trip of 27 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.3 out of 5, Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 5.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area H, 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: #163 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,799 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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 11th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Pharmacies around Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 27 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay, weighted by who lives there.
From Electoral Area H, 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.
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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 5.5%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 28% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 28% to 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.4 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.0 about 80.9 years of life. Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’s region falls short of it, at 79.5. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 53% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 48% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near British Columbia’s 49%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay comes 38th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,297 to 5,481 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 5.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillview AB B+ | 5,473 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 36 | Saint-Jean-de-Matha QC B | 5,415 | 24 km | 56% |
| 37 | Juan de Fuca (Part 1) BC A− | 5,439 | 24 km | 55% |
| 38 | Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay BC B | 5,390 | 28 km | 55% |
| 39 | Central Frontenac ON B− | 5,348 | 41 km | 53% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
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
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay
How far is Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay from a hospital?
A clinic is 29 km from the average resident of Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay and a pharmacy 27 km, as the crow flies.
How is Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’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 H, Central Kootenay’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay?
Women in Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 76.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Electoral Area H, Central Kootenay?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% 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).