Photo: TerradiseBC · CC BY-SA 4.0People in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s health region live to 77.0 on average, 4.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 42% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine live 4.2 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine is D, #245 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,462 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 9.8 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 42%. Health survey ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 22% report high blood pressure and 10% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s neighbourhoods average 4.8 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine grades D 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: #245 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,462 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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 42% 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 44% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
22% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
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
Self-reported obesity, 45%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 26% to the province’s 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.
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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 14th 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
This is the one part of the block measured for Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s region, at 3.9, should live about 77.6 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 77.0, near enough. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 8 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.7 years. A household income of about $92,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; 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.
From Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, a hospital is 4.2 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine, weighted by who lives there.
Against 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine sits near the middle.
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.
Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine is 19th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,092 to 4,216 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | La Pocatière QC A | 4,206 | 0.9 km | 60% |
| 2 | Sunalta AB A+ | 4,151 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 3 | Balfour ON B | 4,171 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 17 | Ozerna AB B | 4,216 | 2.8 km | 51% |
| 18 | Patterson AB A+ | 4,169 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 19 | Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine BC D | 4,153 | 4.2 km | 42% |
| 20 | Leger AB B | 4,108 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 21 | Anderson Walk BC A | 4,210 | 4.5 km | 50% |
| 40 | Northern Lights County AB D− | 4,115 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine | 4.2 km | 42% | 77.0 | D |
| Terrace 4.3 km | 1.6 km | 42% | 77.0 | C− |
| Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine 7.2 km | 17 km | 42% | 77.0 | D− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s; read across for the hospital trip. Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine is the furthest from care, 17 km to Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s 4.2 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 79.2 for women, 75.0 for men around Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine (2022/2024).
How healthy is Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 21% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine live: 257 km to a clinic, 3.9 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).