Photo: Alasdair McLellan · CC BY-SA 3.0Life expectancy around Cobble Hill is 79.8 years, 1.7 less than for the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Measured from where Cobble Hill’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 14 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Cobble Hill a grade of C+, #209 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,130 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cobble Hill
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Cobble Hill live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (15 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 2.8, the trend across regions gives 81.7 years of life; Cobble Hill’s region reaches only 79.8. For its deprivation ↓
Less upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 5.1 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 44% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cobble Hill 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: #209 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,130 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.
The nearest hospital is 14 km from the average home in Cobble Hill
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Cobble Hill’s own, not the region’s.
From Cobble Hill 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.
The region lives 1.9 years less than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Cobble Hill’s region’s dot is under the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Cobble Hill’s region falls below with 79.8. It sits at the foot of the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 81.3 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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in British Columbia (50%)
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (46% against 49%), while 22% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 32%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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
The region comes 10th of 16 in British Columbia, where life expectancy runs from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Cobble Hill’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Cobble Hill comes 31st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,989 to 5,156 people, median 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Altona MB B | 4,989 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 3 | Nipawin SK C− | 5,033 | 0.9 km | 47% |
| 29 | Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley BC B− | 5,156 | 12 km | 47% |
| 30 | Northern Bruce Peninsula ON C | 5,018 | 14 km | 48% |
| 31 | Cobble Hill BC C+ | 5,074 | 14 km | 47% |
| 32 | Tyendinaga ON D | 5,005 | 15 km | 45% |
| 33 | Inverness NS D | 5,138 | 16 km | 49% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cobble Hill
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cobble Hill | 14 km | 47% | 79.8 | C+ |
| Cowichan Bay 5.6 km | 9.8 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley 6.0 km | 12 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Shawnigan 7.0 km | 15 km | 47% | 79.8 | C+ |
| North Saanich 11 km | 6.9 km | 55% | 82.7 | A |
| Cowichan 12 km | 3.5 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area E, Cowichan Valley 12 km | 5.3 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: North Saanich’s life expectancy is 82.7, this region’s 79.8. Residents of Cowichan live nearer a hospital, at 3.5 km against 14 km in Cobble Hill.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Cobble Hill shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Cobble Hill
How far is Cobble Hill from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Cobble Hill is 3.3 km from a clinic and 3.1 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Cobble Hill?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Cobble Hill?
There is no figure for Cobble Hill alone; its health region’s is 82.6 for women and 77.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Cobble Hill’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Cobble Hill: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).