Health in Kimberley · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Very good or excellent health for 57% of adults around Kimberley; the typical Canadian town: 52%
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 80.5 years at birth, 82.7 for women and 78.1 for men. For Kimberley itself the measure is access, and it lags: 24 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Kimberley is B−, #192 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,023 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
British Columbia: 50% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
16%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Distance is Kimberley’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 24 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Kimberley’s region sits 1.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.3 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
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
Kimberley 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 (57%)Better than 81% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 60% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 45% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.5)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (24 km)Better than 17% 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: #192 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,023 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Kimberley: 24 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kimberley’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
24 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
95 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.4 km
residents’ average distance
1.5 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
Kimberley is further out than the provincial norm of 4.4 km in British Columbia, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
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.
80.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
8th
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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 8th place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.3
Economic dependency3.1
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability2.5
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Kimberley’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
1.3 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Kimberley’s region comes out below the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.7, Kimberley’s region’s 80.5 years sit under the line’s 81.8. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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
26%
Diabetes
7.2%
Obese (self-reported)
29%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
23%
British Columbia
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 29%, the province 25%. At 23%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
Health survey
More people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 56% to 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
56%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
16%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
88%
British Columbia
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 16% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Kimberley comes 40th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 8,864 to 9,224 people, median 4.9 km.
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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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Kimberley itself is the trip to care.
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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Kimberley
How far is Kimberley from a hospital?
For everyday care, Kimberley’s residents are 2.4 km from a pharmacy and 95 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Kimberley?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
How is Kimberley’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Kimberley’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Kimberley?
For the health region that includes Kimberley, women can expect 82.7 years and men 78.1 (2022/2024).
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