Photo: LN? from Canada · CC BY 2.052% of adults around Coldstream rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 81.0 years, 84.1 for a girl and 78.2 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 5.1 km from the average resident of Coldstream, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Coldstream a grade of B, #151 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,612 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Coldstream
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (2.5), Coldstream’s region loses years: 81.0 where the trend says 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs low
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Coldstream at 1.6 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. 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.
Coldstream 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: #151 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,612 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.9 years behind the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Coldstream’s, lies beneath the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Coldstream’s region’s: 81.0 years where the line expects 82.9 at 2.5. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 82.9 years. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $81,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
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
Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 7th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Coldstream’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (6.9%)
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, 25% 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.
Getting to hospital from Coldstream: 5.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Coldstream, weighted by who lives there.
Against 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Coldstream sits near the middle.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across British Columbia (48% against 49%), while 26% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Coldstream is 28th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (11,177 to 11,578 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milton-Parc QC A | 11,369 | 0.2 km | 54% |
| 2 | Cabbagetown-South St.James Town ON A | 11,205 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | New Toronto ON A | 11,502 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 26 | Beddington Heights AB A+ | 11,333 | 3.7 km | 56% |
| 27 | Bridgwater Trails MB B+ | 11,365 | 4.1 km | 52% |
| 28 | Coldstream BC B | 11,380 | 5.1 km | 52% |
| 29 | Princess-Rosethorn ON A− | 11,177 | 5.1 km | 50% |
| 30 | Bowness AB A | 11,548 | 5.2 km | 56% |
| 40 | Farnham QC A− | 11,315 | 20 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Coldstream
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coldstream | 5.1 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Vernon 5.7 km | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area C, North Okanagan 6.5 km | 7.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area B, North Okanagan 8.7 km | 6.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Okanagan (Part) 1 15 km | 11 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Lumby 18 km | 21 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
Every place around Coldstream shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Lumby live further from a hospital, at 21 km against 5.1 km in Coldstream.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Coldstream’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Coldstream
How is Coldstream’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Coldstream has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Coldstream?
There is no figure for Coldstream alone; its health region’s is 84.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Coldstream from a hospital?
Residents of Coldstream have a clinic 5.7 km away on average and a pharmacy 4.9 km away, in straight lines.
How healthy is Coldstream?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
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).