Photo: RTBoughner at English Wikipedia · Public domainExpect 76.6 years of life in the region around Mackenzie, 4.9 under the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 39% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. Measured from where Mackenzie’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Mackenzie is C, #225 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,312 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mackenzie
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 12.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (39% as answered). Health survey ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Mackenzie’s region reaches only 76.6. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 101 km from the average home in Mackenzie, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 26% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Mackenzie 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.
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: #225 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,312 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.
39% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in British Columbia (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
On mental health the region is behind British Columbia, 40% very good or excellent to 49%; 28% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
1.7 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Mackenzie’s region comes out below the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.7 about 78.3 years of life. Mackenzie’s region falls short of it, at 76.6. It is outlived by 9 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 78.5 years. Households here earn around $87,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
The nearest hospital is 1.3 km from the average home in Mackenzie
Straight-line distances from each part of Mackenzie, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Mackenzie is on the near side.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (26%) and diabetes (10%)
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 41% 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
Last of the 16 regions in British Columbia: the highest figure is 86.8, 10.2 years above the lowest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Mackenzie’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Mackenzie is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,383 to 3,506 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 3 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 4 | Havre-Saint-Pierre QC B+ | 3,389 | 1.2 km | 61% |
| 5 | Three Hills AB C+ | 3,502 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 6 | Mackenzie BC C | 3,442 | 1.3 km | 39% |
| 7 | Trillium Industrial Park ON A | 3,420 | 1.4 km | 53% |
| 8 | Fairfield ON A | 3,497 | 1.7 km | 53% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Mackenzie alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Mackenzie
How healthy is Mackenzie?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Mackenzie?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 79.5 for women, 74.0 for men around Mackenzie (2022/2024).
How is Mackenzie’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Mackenzie has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Mackenzie from a hospital?
Residents of Mackenzie have a clinic 101 km away on average and a pharmacy 101 km away, in straight lines.
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).