Health in Logan Lake · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
A hospital trip from Logan Lake means 39 km on average, in a straight line
Across the region, 48% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.8 km away on average and 1.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Logan Lake grades C− for health.
British Columbia: 50% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Born around Logan Lake, a child can expect 2.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Logan Lake’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 78.8 years against 80.5. 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
Logan Lake grades C− 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 (48%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (39 km)Better than 5% 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.
The wider area
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
13th
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
The region comes 13th of 16 in British Columbia, where life expectancy runs from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.2
Economic dependency4.8
Ethno-cultural composition1.3
Situational vulnerability2.8
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Logan Lake’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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.7 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Logan Lake’s, lies beneath 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 3.1 would suggest 80.5 years, but Logan Lake’s region stops at 78.8. All 10 regions closest to it on the index live longer; their middle figure is 80.9 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
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% 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
28%
Diabetes
8.2%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
22%
British Columbia
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 33%, the province 25%. At 22%, 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.
Getting care
Everyday care in Logan Lake: the nearest pharmacy 0.8 km away, 1.0 within 3 km
Straight-line distances from each part of Logan Lake, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
39 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
38 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Logan Lake that is further than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
47% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in British Columbia (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
47%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
83%
British Columbia
Mental health beats British Columbia as well: 52% very good or excellent to 49%, with 23% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Logan Lake itself is the trip to care.
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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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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 Logan Lake
How far is Logan Lake from a hospital?
A clinic is 38 km from the average resident of Logan Lake and a pharmacy 0.8 km, as the crow flies.
How is Logan Lake’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Logan Lake’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Logan Lake?
Women in Logan Lake’s region live to 81.8 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Logan Lake?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0