Health in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay sits a long way from hospital care: 29 km for the average resident
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 57% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. For everyday care, the nearest pharmacy is 13 km away on average (0.2 within 3 km). Health gives Electoral Area E, East Kootenay a grade of B−.
British Columbia: 50% · Shared with the rest of the East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
16%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
British Columbia: 15%
Smokers
13%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
British Columbia: 8.9%
Life expectancy
80.5
at birth, 2022/2024
women 82.7 · men 78.1
Nearest hospital
29 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s region sits 1.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.3 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Upbeat about their health
Even once age is allowed for, 5.6 points more adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (56% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Electoral Area E, East Kootenay 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.
Very good or excellent health (57%)Better than 81% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.5)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (29 km)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
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.
Health survey
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
Health very good or excellent
56%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
16%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
88%
British Columbia
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 16% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The wider area
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.
80.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
8th
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
This region is 8th 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
Residential instability1.9
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.1
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’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.
For its deprivation
1.3 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’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. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 20% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
20%
Arthritis
26%
Diabetes
7.2%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
23%
British Columbia
At 29%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% 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.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay: 0.2 within 3 km, the nearest 13 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area E, East Kootenay, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
29 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
106 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
13 km
residents’ average distance
0.2 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
47%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Electoral Area E, East Kootenay 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.
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.
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area E, East Kootenay alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay
How far is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay is 106 km from a clinic and 13 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, East Kootenay?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.7 for women, 78.1 for men around Electoral Area E, East Kootenay (2022/2024).
How is Electoral Area E, East Kootenay’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Electoral Area E, East Kootenay has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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