Health in Hudson's Hope · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Hudson's Hope is 76.9 years, 4.6 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 43% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. Closer to home, a hospital is 42 km from the average resident of Hudson's Hope, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Hudson's Hope grades D for health.
British Columbia: 50% · Measured across the Northeast Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Hudson's Hope’s own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 47 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 8.9 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 43 km from the average home in Hudson's Hope, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Hudson's Hope grades D 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 (43%)Better than 5% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.9)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (42 km)Better than 4% 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.
Getting care
From Hudson's Hope, a hospital is 42 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Hudson's Hope’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
42 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
43 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
43 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Residents of Hudson's Hope travel further than most of the province: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
44% 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
44%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
42%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (42% against 49%), while 25% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
For its deprivation
The region lives 0.8 years less than its deprivation predicts
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Hudson's Hope’s, lies beneath the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 3.9 would suggest 77.7 years, but Hudson's Hope’s region stops at 76.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 78.7 years in the middle. Judged by income, around $98,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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 6.4%
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
20%
Diabetes
6.4%
Obese (self-reported)
35%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
20%
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.
The wider area
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
76.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.5
more years expected at 65
15th
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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 15th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency4.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Hudson's Hope’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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Hudson's Hope shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Hudson's Hope
What is the life expectancy in Hudson's Hope?
Women in Hudson's Hope’s region live to 79.5 on average and men to 74.4, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Hudson's Hope from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Hudson's Hope is 43 km from a clinic and 43 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Hudson's Hope?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How is Hudson's Hope’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Hudson's Hope: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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