Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Duck Lake 7’s health region
People in the region live to 81.0 on average: 84.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024. For Duck Lake 7 itself the measure is access, and it lags: 17 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Duck Lake 7 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Duck Lake 7. The Health grade for Duck Lake 7 is B−.
What stands out about health in Duck Lake 7
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Duck Lake 7 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.5, would give Duck Lake 7’s region about 82.9 years; it stops at 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Duck Lake 7’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Duck Lake 7 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.
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.
From Duck Lake 7, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Duck Lake 7’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Duck Lake 7 is on the far side.
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.
The region lives 1.9 years less than its deprivation predicts
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Duck Lake 7’s dot is marked, under the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.5, Duck Lake 7’s region’s 81.0 years sit under the line’s 82.9. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 82.9 years). Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 regions in British Columbia
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
This region is 7th longest-lived of 16 in British Columbia, on a scale from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Duck Lake 7’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.9%
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
At 28%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 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.
Self-rated health much as in British Columbia: 51% 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
Asked about their mental health, 48% of adults here said very good or excellent; across British Columbia it was 49%, and 26% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Duck Lake 7
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duck Lake 7 | 17 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Lake Country 4.3 km | 20 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Central Okanagan 9.6 km | 16 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Central Okanagan West 15 km | 22 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Kelowna 15 km | 5.6 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Tsinstikeptum 10 18 km | 3.4 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Duck Lake 7’s; read across for the hospital trip. Tsinstikeptum 10 is the closest to care, 3.4 km to Duck Lake 7’s 17 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 Duck Lake 7 itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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 Duck Lake 7
How far is Duck Lake 7 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Duck Lake 7’s residents are 1.5 km from a pharmacy and 2.0 km from a clinic on average.
How is Duck Lake 7’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Duck Lake 7’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
What is the life expectancy in Duck Lake 7?
For the health region that includes Duck Lake 7, women can expect 84.1 years and men 78.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Duck Lake 7?
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.
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).