Photo: Shawn from Airdrie, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Enderby, 52% of adults call their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 81.0 on average: 84.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024. Measured from where Enderby’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 14 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Enderby is B, #173 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,929 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Enderby
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Enderby the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 14 km. Getting care ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.5 on the deprivation index typically live 82.9 years; Enderby’s region, at 81.0, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Enderby 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: #173 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,929 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.
From Enderby, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Enderby’s own, not the region’s.
Enderby is further out than the provincial norm of 4.4 km in British Columbia, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
1.9 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Enderby’s dot is marked, under the line.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.5 would suggest 82.9 years, but Enderby’s region stops at 81.0. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 82.9 years. Households here earn around $81,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (correlation 0.14).
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.
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
Self-reported obesity, 28%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 25% 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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health 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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 7th 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 Enderby’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
The region’s 48% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of British Columbia’s 49%, with 26% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Enderby is 28th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,246 to 3,337 people, median 5.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rankin Inlet NU D | 3,336 | 0.5 km | 39% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Virden MB B− | 3,322 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 26 | Grande-Rivière QC C+ | 3,318 | 13 km | 56% |
| 27 | Pilot Butte SK B− | 3,255 | 14 km | 49% |
| 28 | Enderby BC B | 3,292 | 14 km | 52% |
| 29 | Saint-Jean-Baptiste QC A− | 3,332 | 19 km | 55% |
| 30 | Annapolis County, Subdivision D NS D | 3,273 | 19 km | 44% |
| 40 | Arviat NU D− | 3,330 | 216 km | 39% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Enderby
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Enderby | 14 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area F, North Okanagan 11 km | 18 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Armstrong 13 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap 15 km | 15 km | 48% | 78.8 | C |
| Spallumcheen 17 km | 5.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Salmon Arm 18 km | 2.4 km | 48% | 78.8 | C+ |
Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 78.8 against 81.0 here. Residents of Armstrong live nearer a hospital, at 1.2 km against 14 km in Enderby.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Enderby shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Enderby
How far is Enderby from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Enderby live: 19 km to a clinic, 0.7 km to a pharmacy.
How is Enderby’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Enderby has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Enderby?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Enderby’s health region only: 84.1 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Enderby?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
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).