Photo: The original uploader was GreenB1983 at English Wikipedia . · CC BY-SA 3.0More adults feel healthy around Invermere: 57% say very good or excellent (52% for the typical Canadian town)
People in the region live to 80.5 on average: 82.7 for women and 78.1 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Invermere is well placed: 0.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Invermere grades B+ for health, #135 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,203 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Invermere
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Invermere, a child can expect 1.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.3 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, Invermere is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 0.3 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Invermere 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: #135 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,203 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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in British Columbia, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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 8th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Invermere’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Invermere: 0.8 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Invermere, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Invermere is on the near 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.3 years short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Invermere’s region shows under the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Invermere’s region’s: 80.5 years where the line expects 81.8 at 2.7. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 81.4 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.
High blood pressure for 20% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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 29% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 23% 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.
Self-rated health beats British Columbia: 56% very good or excellent, against 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 is ahead of British Columbia, 56% very good or excellent to 49%; 16% 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.
Invermere is 4th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,237 to 4,380 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 4 | Invermere BC B+ | 4,305 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 5 | Spence MB B+ | 4,378 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 6 | Central Park MB B+ | 4,328 | 1.1 km | 52% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Invermere
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Invermere | 0.8 km | 57% | 80.5 | B+ |
| Radium Hot Springs 14 km | 13 km | 57% | 80.5 | B |
| Electoral Area F, East Kootenay 14 km | 11 km | 57% | 80.5 | B |
The neighbours all sit in Invermere’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Radium Hot Springs live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 0.8 km in Invermere.
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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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 Invermere itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Invermere
How is Invermere’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Invermere: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Invermere?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Invermere?
For the health region that includes Invermere, women can expect 82.7 years and men 78.1 (2022/2024).
How far is Invermere from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Invermere live: 141 km to a clinic, 0.9 km to a pharmacy.
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).