Health in Keremeos · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Keremeos’ health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.0 years (84.1 for women, 78.2 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Keremeos apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.6 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Keremeos is B+.
British Columbia: 50% · Measured across the Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
16%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For a deprivation score of 2.5, the trend across regions gives 82.9 years of life; Keremeos’ region reaches only 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
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
Keremeos 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 (52%)Better than 54% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 59% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 63% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.0)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.6 km)Better than 98% 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.
For its deprivation
Behind regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Keremeos’ 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 2.5 would suggest 82.9 years, but Keremeos’ region stops at 81.0. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 82.9 years. A household income of about $81,000, modest for a region, comes with longer lives than in most regions; across regions the two barely move together (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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% 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
23%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
6.9%
Obese (self-reported)
28%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
12%
Smoke every day
8.6%
Heavy drinking
25%
British Columbia
At 28%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% against 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 0.6 km from the average home in Keremeos
Straight-line distances from each part of Keremeos, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
35 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.3 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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
Residents of Keremeos are closer 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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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.
81.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.2
more years expected at 65
7th
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 7th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability4.0
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability3.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Keremeos’ 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in British Columbia: 51% to 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
51%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
26%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across British Columbia (48% against 49%), while 26% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Keremeos
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Electoral Area B, Okanagan-SimilkameenElectoral Area G, Okanagan-SimilkameenKeremeos
Keremeos and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Electoral Area G, Okanagan-Similkameen live further from a hospital, at 9.1 km against 0.6 km in Keremeos.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Keremeos shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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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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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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Keremeos
How is Keremeos’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Keremeos has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Keremeos from a hospital?
For everyday care, Keremeos’ residents are 0.3 km from a pharmacy and 35 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Keremeos?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Keremeos’ health region only: 84.1 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Keremeos?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
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