Health in Chetwynd · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Chetwynd: 76.9 years, 4.6 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 43% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Chetwynd live 2.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Chetwynd a grade of C.
British Columbia: 50% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Northeast Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 8.9 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 44% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Chetwynd’s neighbourhoods average 4.8 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
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.
Health Grade
Chetwynd 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.
Very good or excellent health (43%)Better than 5% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.9)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.6 km)Better than 82% of Canadian towns
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.
Health survey
44% 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
Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
42%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
Mental health trails British Columbia: 42% very good or excellent to 49%, with 25% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The wider area
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.
76.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.5
more years expected at 65
15th
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
Ranked 15th of 16 in British Columbia: the regions span 76.6 to 86.8 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.4
Economic dependency1.5
Ethno-cultural composition2.6
Situational vulnerability4.8
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Chetwynd’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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 0.8 years short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Chetwynd’s region shows under the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Chetwynd’s region’s: 76.9 years where the line expects 77.7 at 3.9. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.7 years. A household income of about $98,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
Conditions and habits
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.4% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
20%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
6.4%
Obese (self-reported)
35%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
20%
British Columbia
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 35%, the province 25%.
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.
Getting care
From Chetwynd, a hospital is 2.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Chetwynd, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.9 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.0 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Chetwynd are closer than most of the province: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Chetwynd’s regional figures. Electoral Area E, Peace River is the furthest from care, 23 km to Chetwynd’s 2.6 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Chetwynd itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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 Chetwynd
What is the life expectancy in Chetwynd?
For the health region that includes Chetwynd, women can expect 79.5 years and men 74.4 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Chetwynd?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How is Chetwynd’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Chetwynd: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Chetwynd from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Chetwynd is 1.9 km from a clinic and 2.0 km from a pharmacy.
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