Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMore adults feel healthy around Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap: 57% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Women in the region live to 82.7 and men to 78.1, 80.5 years taken together (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is B−, #178 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,963 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 4.7 km. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, a pharmacy is 17 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap runs 1.0 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.3 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap 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: #178 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,963 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap, weighted by who lives there.
From Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap 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. The centre of population is 4.7 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 17 km.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
Ranked 8th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
1.3 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s region’s dot is under the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.7, the expected figure is 81.8 years, and Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s region falls below with 80.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 81.4 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.
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% 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, 29%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 23% 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.
56% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more 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
On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 56% very good or excellent to 49%; 16% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap is 36th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,621 to 3,723 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Eaglemere MB B+ | 3,631 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 2 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | West Kildonan Industrial MB B+ | 3,678 | 1.4 km | 52% |
| 34 | Saint-Sulpice QC B+ | 3,688 | 16 km | 56% |
| 35 | Electoral Area F, Bulkley-Nechako BC D | 3,643 | 17 km | 39% |
| 36 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap BC B− | 3,672 | 17 km | 57% |
| 37 | Saint-Michel QC A− | 3,672 | 18 km | 55% |
| 38 | Bright NB C− | 3,648 | 23 km | 45% |
| 40 | Powassan ON D | 3,657 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap | 17 km | 57% | 80.5 | B− |
| Golden 4.5 km | 0.7 km | 57% | 80.5 | B+ |
One health region covers Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Golden live nearer a hospital, at 0.7 km against 17 km in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s own.
- 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap
How far is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap live: 159 km to a clinic, 17 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap: 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 Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 78.1 for men around Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap (2022/2024).
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).