Photo: Glen Jackson glen_jackson · CC0Few places match Maple Ridge for health: it beats 87% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for British Columbia: 48% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 50%. Measured from where Maple Ridge’s residents live, a hospital is 4.1 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The Health grade for Maple Ridge is A, #111 of 254 in British Columbia and #847 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Maple Ridge
A long-lived region
Maple Ridge’s region sits 2.9 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs low
Around Maple Ridge, only 5.7% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Maple Ridge has 5.5 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.8 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Maple Ridge grades A 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: #111 of 254 in British Columbia and #847 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.
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
The region comes 2nd 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Maple Ridge’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.
19% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.1% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 19%, self-reported obesity is below British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is rarer (16% against 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 to hospital from Maple Ridge: 4.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Maple Ridge, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Maple Ridge is ordinary: 4.4 km is the typical figure in British Columbia, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Maple Ridge’s lies near the line.
At 2.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 84.5 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Maple Ridge belongs to reaches 84.4. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 83.3 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 49% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind British Columbia on mental health (51% to 49%), the region has 23% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Maple Ridge is 24th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (79,371 to 142,450 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Victoria BC A+ | 103,888 | 1.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | New Westminster BC A | 92,124 | 1.8 km | 48% |
| 3 | Chomedey QC A | 81,813 | 1.8 km | 53% |
| 22 | Lethbridge AB B− | 113,671 | 3.8 km | 52% |
| 23 | Waterloo ON A | 142,450 | 4.1 km | 53% |
| 24 | Maple Ridge BC A | 105,925 | 4.1 km | 48% |
| 25 | Nanaimo BC B− | 111,845 | 4.2 km | 47% |
| 26 | Prince George BC C− | 85,944 | 4.6 km | 39% |
| 40 | Lindsay ON C | 85,351 | 13 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Maple Ridge
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Ridge | 4.1 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Pitt Meadows 7.3 km | 4.4 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Anniedale 11 km | 7.7 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Langley 12 km | 5.9 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Clayton Heights 12 km | 7.3 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Aloha Estates 13 km | 6.4 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Fraser Heights 14 km | 5.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
Across a regional line, Anniedale has its own figures: life expectancy 83.2, against 84.4 here. Anniedale is the furthest from care, 7.7 km to Maple Ridge’s 4.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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 Maple Ridge’s own.
- 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.
Questions about health in Maple Ridge
How is Maple Ridge’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Maple Ridge: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Maple Ridge?
There is no figure for Maple Ridge alone; its health region’s is 86.6 for women and 82.1 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Maple Ridge?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is Maple Ridge from a hospital?
Residents of Maple Ridge have a clinic 2.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.8 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).