People in Fruitvale’s health region live to 79.5 on average, 2.0 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 55%, ahead of the 50% for British Columbia. For Fruitvale itself the measure is access, and it lags: 11 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Fruitvale is B+.
What stands out about health in Fruitvale
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Fruitvale live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 5.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Fruitvale 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 Fruitvale: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fruitvale’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, Fruitvale 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (5.5%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 28% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 28% to 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.
1.4 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Fruitvale’s region’s dot is under the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Fruitvale’s region’s: 79.5 years where the line expects 80.9 at 3.0. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 80.3 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.
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
Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 11th.
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 Fruitvale’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
53% 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
On mental health the region tracks British Columbia, 48% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% 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.
Health in the places around Fruitvale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fruitvale | 11 km | 55% | 79.5 | B+ |
| Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary 1.5 km | 11 km | 55% | 79.5 | B+ |
| Montrose 4.9 km | 8.6 km | 55% | 79.5 | A− |
| Trail 11 km | 1.7 km | 55% | 79.5 | A |
| Warfield 15 km | 3.6 km | 55% | 79.5 | A− |
| Electoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay Boundary 15 km | 8.3 km | 55% | 79.5 | A− |
| Rossland 18 km | 7.9 km | 55% | 79.5 | A− |
Every place around Fruitvale shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Trail is the closest to care, 1.7 km to Fruitvale’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Fruitvale itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Fruitvale
How is Fruitvale’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Fruitvale: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Fruitvale?
Women in Fruitvale’s region live to 82.8 on average and men to 76.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Fruitvale from a hospital?
For everyday care, Fruitvale’s residents are 6.1 km from a pharmacy and 46 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Fruitvale?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
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).