Health in Kaslo · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Kaslo sits a long way from hospital care: 54 km for the average resident
In the health survey, 55% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than British Columbia’s 50%. A pharmacy is nearer: 53 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Health gives Kaslo a grade of B.
British Columbia: 50% · Measured across the Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
14%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Kaslo’s region sits 2.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.9 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Kaslo, a pharmacy is 53 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 19% report high blood pressure and 5.5% diabetes. 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.
Health Grade
Kaslo 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 (55%)Better than 65% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (14%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Smokers (9.9%)Better than 92% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.5)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (54 km)Better than 3% 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.
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.
79.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
11th
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 11th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability4.1
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability2.6
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Kaslo’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
Pharmacies around Kaslo: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 53 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kaslo’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
54 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
52 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
53 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
From Kaslo 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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 5.5% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
5.5%
Obese (self-reported)
28%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
9.8%
Smoke every day
6.5%
Heavy drinking
28%
British Columbia
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.
For its deprivation
1.4 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Kaslo’s region shows under 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 3.0 would suggest 80.9 years, but Kaslo’s region stops at 79.5. 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats British Columbia: 53% 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
Health very good or excellent
53%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
75%
Satisfied with life
81%
British Columbia
Mental health reads like the rest of British Columbia: 48% against 49%, and 22% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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.
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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Kaslo alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Kaslo
How far is Kaslo from a hospital?
Residents of Kaslo have a clinic 52 km away on average and a pharmacy 53 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Kaslo?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Kaslo’s health region only: 82.8 years for women and 76.5 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Kaslo?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 14%.
How is Kaslo’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Kaslo has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 2.0