Photo: waferboard · CC BY 2.0Cranbrook’s health region reports 57% in very good or excellent health, ahead of the typical Canadian town’s 52%
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.5, with women at 82.7 and men at 78.1. For Cranbrook itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.7 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Cranbrook is B+, #142 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,284 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cranbrook
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Cranbrook, a child can expect 1.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.3 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cranbrook 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: #142 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,284 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.
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
The region comes 8th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Cranbrook itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.3 years behind the trend
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Cranbrook’s region’s dot is under the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Cranbrook’s region, at 2.7, should live about 81.8 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 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.
From Cranbrook, a hospital is 1.7 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Cranbrook, weighted by who lives there.
From Cranbrook that is nearer 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.
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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (56% against 49%), while 16% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Cranbrook is 16th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (22,055 to 23,392 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 1.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Church-Wellesley ON A | 22,415 | 0.2 km | 50% |
| 2 | Moss Park ON A | 22,701 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 3 | High Park North ON A | 22,162 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 14 | Mont-Royal QC A | 22,821 | 1.6 km | 54% |
| 15 | Humber Bay Shores ON A | 22,633 | 1.6 km | 50% |
| 16 | Cranbrook BC B+ | 22,703 | 1.7 km | 57% |
| 17 | Yellowknife NT C− | 22,858 | 1.7 km | 43% |
| 18 | Eglinton East ON A | 22,820 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 40 | Saint-Lazare QC A− | 22,895 | 17 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cranbrook
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cranbrook | 1.7 km | 57% | 80.5 | B+ |
| Electoral Area C, East Kootenay 4.4 km | 10 km | 57% | 80.5 | B |
Around Cranbrook the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Electoral Area C, East Kootenay is the furthest from care, 10 km to Cranbrook’s 1.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cranbrook itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Cranbrook
How is Cranbrook’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Cranbrook’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Cranbrook?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Cranbrook?
For the health region that includes Cranbrook, women can expect 82.7 years and men 78.1 (2022/2024).
How far is Cranbrook from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Cranbrook live: 109 km to a clinic, 2.2 km to a pharmacy.
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).