Electoral Area E, Columbia-ShuswapBritish Columbia

More households own their home in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap than in British Columbia’s towns or across Canadian towns: 84%

Rent took nearly a quarter of household income, about level with British Columbia’s towns (24%) and above Canadian towns (20%). Owners put the median home at $448,000, lower than British Columbia’s towns ($720,000) yet higher than Canadian towns ($406,000).

Hazard risk in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap is lower than in 91% of Canadian towns

Some 5% of the land within 25 km of Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap has burned since 1986; at 0.13% a year that is moderate, not high. Radon around Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap is ordinary for Canada: 6.4% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical). Averaged over the years, quake damage costs $0.007 per $1,000 of buildings, lower than British Columbia’s towns ($0.36) and near Canadian towns ($0.030). Flood mapping exists: 2 studies, most recently by Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship. Nobody publishes radon tests for Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap alone, so this card uses the figure for the Thompson/Cariboo health region.

For the force that serves Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap, the Crime Severity Index is 146, above British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

These figures come from the closest detachment: none reports for Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap itself · Measured across the Sicamous detachment area: Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000

The violent index for its police area came to 185, higher than both British Columbia’s towns (76) and Canadian towns (86). Its police area records 35.3 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. In addition, violent crime in the area its police cover: 13.9 per 1,000 people a year.

Households in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap earn less than those in 91% of Canadian towns

Commutes averaged 24 min, lower than both British Columbia’s towns (26 min) and Canadian towns (26 min). Driving is how nearly nine in ten commuters got to work at the census.

Lives run shorter around Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region

By their own account, 48% of adults here are in very good or excellent health, below British Columbia’s towns (50%) and Canadian towns (52%) alike. Smoking is commoner than in the province: 13% of adults, against 8.9% for British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 31 km from the average resident of Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap, and 65% live more than 30 km away.

Summer runs warm in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap: July highs of 28.3°C, above British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

January nights fall to −5.6°C on average, below British Columbia’s towns (0.5°C) but above Canadian towns (−13.5°C). Gardeners get 160 frost-free days, from 28 April to 6 October. The most precipitation falls in November: 83 mm in a normal year. Most of the snow comes in December, about 71 cm.

Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap’s teenagers travel 30 km to the nearest high school

Young children have 8.7 km to the nearest elementary school, above both British Columbia’s towns (0.6 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km). On results, 3 of its 3 tested schools sit in the lower two fifths in British Columbia.

An older town: 27% of people in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap are 65 or over, more than in both British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

One measure of family life: just over one in ten residents are under 15. 14% of residents have an Indigenous identity, above both British Columbia’s towns (5%) and Canadian towns (2.8%).

A normal November in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap runs from −1°C to 6°C

November normally sees 83 mm of precipitation. The month after, December, normally sees 1°C afternoons and −5°C nights. ECCC’s forecast for Salmon Arm is on the Weather page, hour by hour.

Kamloops—Shuswap—Central Rockies, which takes in Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap, is held by Mel Arnold (Conservative Party of Canada)

20 of the 43 MPs from British Columbia belong to the Liberal Party of Canada.

Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap has one public library, South Shuswap Branch

From the centre of Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap, it is 18 km away.

Mount Revelstoke National Park is 9.6 km from Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap

23 areas within 10 km are protected for nature. Of the land within 10 km, 3.1% has protected status, below British Columbia’s towns (6.7%) but above Canadian towns (2.3%). Within 5 km are 7 beaches; Public Beach is the nearest.

89% of Electoral Area E, Columbia-Shuswap’s homes date from 1961 or later