Health in Hope · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 80.0 years of life in the region around Hope, 1.5 under the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 50% for British Columbia. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Hope is well placed: 2.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Hope is B, #162 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,797 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
British Columbia: 50% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.3 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 48%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Hope 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 (47%)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 54% of Canadian towns
Smokers (10%)Better than 90% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.0)Better than 41% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.1 km)Better than 85% 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. Its place: #162 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,797 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.
Health survey
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer 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
48%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
20%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
64%
Satisfied with life
83%
British Columbia
On mental health the region tracks British Columbia, 48% very good or excellent to 49%; 23% 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.
For its deprivation
Behind regions as deprived by 1.5 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Hope’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 2.8 on the index, regions tend to reach 81.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Hope belongs to trails at 80.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle. Households here earn around $88,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than 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.
Conditions and habits
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.9% diabetes
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
19%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
8.9%
Obese (self-reported)
35%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
10%
Smoke every day
7.6%
Heavy drinking
17%
British Columbia
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 35% of adults against 25% for British Columbia.
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
Getting to hospital from Hope: 2.1 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hope’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
2.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.9 km
residents’ average distance
2.2 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Hope is on the near side.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Hope’s own.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Hope
How is Hope’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Hope’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Hope?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Hope?
For the health region that includes Hope, women can expect 82.9 years and men 77.2 (2022/2024).
How far is Hope from a hospital?
Residents of Hope have a clinic 2.0 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.9 km away, in straight lines.
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