Photo: The Interior · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run shorter around Chase: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. Measured from where Chase’s residents live, a hospital is 32 km away on average and 100% of them are over 30 km out. Chase grades C− for health, #235 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,396 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chase
Far from a hospital
Residents of Chase live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (32 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
At 78.8 years, Chase’s region trails the 80.5 that regions scoring 3.1 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Chase 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: #235 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,396 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 Chase: 32 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Chase’s own, not the region’s.
From Chase 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.7 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Chase’s, lies beneath the trend.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 3.1 would suggest 80.5 years, but Chase’s region stops at 78.8. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group 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
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
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
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Chase’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 47% 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
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Chase comes 38th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,543 to 2,646 people, median 8.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosetown SK B+ | 2,600 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 3 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 36 | Division No. 7, Subdivision E NL D− | 2,632 | 27 km | 44% |
| 37 | Gracefield QC C+ | 2,544 | 32 km | 55% |
| 38 | Chase BC C− | 2,591 | 32 km | 48% |
| 39 | Saint-Damien QC B | 2,569 | 34 km | 56% |
| 40 | High Prairie AB D− | 2,607 | 41 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chase
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chase | 32 km | 48% | 78.8 | C− |
| Sun Peaks Mountain 16 km | 39 km | 48% | 78.8 | C− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Chase’s regional figures.
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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Chase shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Chase
How far is Chase from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Chase is 16 km from a clinic and 0.5 km from a pharmacy.
How is Chase’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Chase: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Chase?
There is no figure for Chase alone; its health region’s is 81.8 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Chase?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).