Photo: K29328 · CC BY-SA 4.0More adults feel healthy around Creston: 57% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
Lives in the region last 80.5 years on average (2022/2024): 82.7 for women, 78.1 for men. What sets Creston apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Creston is B+, #136 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,212 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Creston
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Creston, 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 ↓
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Creston; from its centre of population the trip is 0.1 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Creston 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: #136 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,212 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.
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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 8th place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Creston’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 0.9 km from the average home in Creston
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Creston’s own, not the region’s.
From Creston 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.3 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Creston’s region comes out below the trend.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.7, Creston’s region’s 80.5 years sit under the line’s 81.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 56% to 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Creston comes 6th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,862 to 6,092 people, median 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowertown West ON A+ | 5,947 | 0.4 km | 56% |
| 2 | Pleasant Hill SK A− | 6,088 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 3 | Civic Hospital ON A+ | 6,091 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 4 | Central Frederick ON A | 5,895 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 5 | Boyle Street AB B+ | 5,862 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 6 | Creston BC B+ | 5,976 | 0.9 km | 57% |
| 7 | Melfort SK C− | 6,028 | 1.0 km | 47% |
| 8 | Stettler AB C+ | 6,035 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 40 | Stettler County No. 6 AB C | 5,966 | 18 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Creston
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creston | 0.9 km | 57% | 80.5 | B+ |
| Electoral Area B, Central Kootenay 2.8 km | 8.5 km | 57% | 80.5 | B |
| Electoral Area C, Central Kootenay 2.9 km | 8.1 km | 57% | 80.5 | B |
One health region covers Creston and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Electoral Area B, Central Kootenay is the furthest from care, 8.5 km to Creston’s 0.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Creston alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Creston
How healthy is Creston?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Creston?
Women in Creston’s region live to 82.7 on average and men to 78.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Creston’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Creston’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Creston from a hospital?
For everyday care, Creston’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy and 71 km from a clinic on average.
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).