Photo: This image is Image Number 937549 at Mushroom Observer , a source for mycological images. · CC BY-SA 3.0People in Lantzville’s health region live to 79.8 on average, 1.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Lantzville, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Lantzville is B−, #203 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,072 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lantzville
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Set against regions as deprived (2.8), Lantzville’s region loses years: 79.8 where the trend says 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Lantzville the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 5.1 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lantzville 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.
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: #203 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,072 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.
The region lives 1.9 years less than its deprivation predicts
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Lantzville’s region comes out below the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.8, the expected figure is 81.7 years, and Lantzville’s region falls below with 79.8. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 81.3 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.
Getting to hospital from Lantzville: 11 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lantzville, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Lantzville travel further 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.
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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 44% 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (46% against 49%), while 22% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 32% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 22% 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 10th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Lantzville’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Lantzville is 31st nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,201 to 4,353 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 29 | Electoral Area F, Central Kootenay BC A− | 4,209 | 10 km | 55% |
| 30 | Victoria County, Subdivision B NS C− | 4,258 | 11 km | 49% |
| 31 | Lantzville BC B− | 4,276 | 11 km | 47% |
| 32 | Oka QC A | 4,312 | 15 km | 60% |
| 33 | East Angus QC A | 4,261 | 16 km | 57% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Lantzville
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lantzville | 11 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Fairwinds 7.6 km | 11 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area C, Nanaimo 7.7 km | 8.2 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Nanaimo 9.9 km | 4.2 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Parksville 19 km | 1.7 km | 47% | 79.8 | B |
The neighbours all sit in Lantzville’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Parksville is the closest to care, 1.7 km to Lantzville’s 11 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lantzville itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Lantzville
How healthy is Lantzville?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Lantzville?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lantzville’s health region only: 82.6 years for women and 77.1 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Lantzville from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Lantzville live: 3.0 km to a clinic, 1.5 km to a pharmacy.
How is Lantzville’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Lantzville’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).