Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainElectoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 1.5 years: life expectancy 80.0
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 12 km from the average resident of Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 4.3 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (48% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley 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.
Getting to hospital from Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s own, not the region’s.
From Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley 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.
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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 48% very good or excellent, against 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is close to the province’s: 48% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 23% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.5 years short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s dot is marked, under the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s region’s: 80.0 years where the line expects 81.5 at 2.8. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 81.2 years). Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $88,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.9%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 35%, tops British Columbia (25%).
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
Ranked 9th of 16 in British Columbia: the regions span 76.6 to 86.8 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley | 12 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Tzeachten 13 9.2 km | 6.4 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Skowkale 10 km | 3.7 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Chilliwack 11 km | 5.1 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Rosedale 13 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Cultus Lake 15 km | 13 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Kent 18 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Skowkale live nearer a hospital, at 3.7 km against 12 km in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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 Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley
How is Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley have a clinic 8.5 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.8 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley?
There is no figure for Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 77.2 for men in 2022/2024.
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).