Electoral Area B, Kitimat-StikineBritish Columbia

4 of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s 4 tested schools score in the lower two fifths in British Columbia

Independent schools number 3 of 8, above the 18% in British Columbia. Within 3 km of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine are 7 elementary schools and 1 secondary school. Counting each board with a school within 3 km gives 2, about level with British Columbia’s towns (2) and below Canadian towns (3).

Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine earns a D− for health

Area-wide: health survey and life expectancy, counted over the Northwest Health Service Delivery Area

Homes here are 19 km from a hospital on average, above British Columbia’s towns (4.4 km) and Canadian towns (3.7 km) alike. Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 77.0, women 79.2 and men 75.0 (2022/2024). Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 42% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia, but the region has more smokers than British Columbia, 14% of adults to 8.9%.

Commuters in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine travel further than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, 30 min on average

The force covering Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine records more serious violence than British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns, at 295

A best guess: the nearest detachment’s figures, since none is filed under Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine

Its police area records 62.7 property incidents per 1,000 residents a year. The index for the force that serves it came to 190, above both British Columbia’s towns (83) and Canadian towns (67). Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the New Hazelton detachment area.

Hazard risk in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine is lower than in 89% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Northwest health region: radon tests

Province of B.C. - Water, Lands, and Resource Stewardship has mapped the flood hazard here, one of 2 studies on the national inventory. Little of the land around Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine has burned: 0.5% within 25 km since 1986, or 0.01% a year. Radon around Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine is ordinary for Canada: 5.2% of tested homes over the guideline (6.6% typical).

Summers stay cool in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine: July afternoons reach 21.8°C, below British Columbia’s towns and Canadian towns

The most precipitation falls in October: 66 mm in a normal year. Frosty days number 187 in a normal year, above both British Columbia’s towns (60) and Canadian towns (159). Winter lows in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine average −10.9°C in January. Snow peaks in December: 48 cm in a normal year.

Few places match Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine for protected land nearby: more than 9 in 10 Canadian towns

Inside the town itself, 14% of the land is protected. National parks are all over 100 km off. Within 10 km are 19 protected areas.

More of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in British Columbia’s towns or Canadian towns: 26%

The under-15s are 16% of the population here. Visible minorities make up 0.7% of the population, below British Columbia’s towns (8.6%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. Also worth knowing: a quarter of residents are 65 or over.

Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine in November: highs near 1°C, lows near −5°C

A typical November adds 38 cm of snow. Then December: −3°C by day, −10°C at night. In November, the normal is 54 mm of rain and snow. Across the year, normals run from −11°C nights in January to 22°C afternoons in July.

Skeena—Bulkley Valley, which takes in Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine, is held by Ellis Ross (Conservative Party of Canada)

Across British Columbia, 20 of the 43 MPs sit with the Liberal Party of Canada.

Hazelton District Public Library is Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine’s public library

The library is 1.2 km from the centre of Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine.

Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine has just 8% of households spending at least 30% of income on shelter, where the typical Canadian town has 18%

85% of households own their home, above British Columbia’s towns (76%) and Canadian towns (74%) alike. Rent took 19% of household income, below both British Columbia’s towns (24%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Electoral Area B, Kitimat-Stikine: 1 historic place, with the highest designation

A further one sits a short way past the edge of town. At the 2021 census, 14% of homes dated from before 1961, above British Columbia’s towns (11%) but below Canadian towns (18%).