ChaseBritish Columbia

Chase earns a D− for hazard risk

With 0.57% of the land around it burning each year, Chase sits in the high wildfire band (23% within 25 km since 1986). Its survey area, 6.4% over the radon guideline, is close to the typical town’s 6.6%. NRCan’s model puts the yearly earthquake loss at $0.008 per $1,000 of building value, lower than British Columbia’s towns ($0.36) and near Canadian towns ($0.030). Flood mapping exists: 3 studies, most recently by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship.

Renting in Chase eats 33% of household income, more than in both British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

The median home value was $380,000, lower than both British Columbia’s towns ($720,000) and Canadian towns ($406,000). Home ownership covers 83% of households. Chase doesn’t get its own rent as a share of income and monthly rent for a two-bedroom figures; the ones here come from the Kamloops metro area.

Household incomes in Chase trail those of 86% of Canadian towns

Getting to work takes 29 min on average.

The nearest high school to Chase is 16 km away

Lives run shorter around Chase: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area

Measured from where Chase’s residents live, a hospital is 32 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. The survey counts 13% of adults as smokers, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (9%) and Canadian towns (12%). Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%.

Chase has warmer summers than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: July afternoons reach 28.3°C

Most of the snow comes in December, about 71 cm. Snowfall adds up to 203 cm a year, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (51 cm) and Canadian towns (141 cm). On a January night, the temperature in Chase falls to about −5.6°C. Frost usually lifts by 28 April and returns around 6 October: 160 days without it.

More of Chase’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 11%

Visible minorities make up 3.2% of the population, below both British Columbia’s towns (8.6%) and Canadian towns (15%).

Chase earns a C for safety

The force’s area logs 16.7 violent incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 80, near British Columbia’s towns (83) and higher than Canadian towns (67).

In Chase, November normally means 6°C afternoons and −1°C nights

Rain and snow over a typical November come to 83 mm. Into December, the normals move to 1°C and −5°C. Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Salmon Arm forecast, on the Weather page.

Chase sends Mel Arnold (Conservative Party of Canada) to the Commons from Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies

In the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, Chase belongs to Kamloops-North Thompson; who holds it as MLA (Member of the Legislative Assembly, the provincial or territorial legislature) isn’t on an open record, so no one is named.

Chase Public Library is Chase’s public library

It sits 0.3 km from the centre of Chase.

The nearest provincial park, Tsútswecw Park, is 1.8 km from Chase

Protected areas cover 7% of the land within 10 km, about level with British Columbia’s towns (6.7%) and above Canadian towns (2.3%). No national park lies within 100 km.