Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Metchosin is ahead of 91% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 55% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole manages 50%. Closer to home, a hospital is 13 km from the average resident of Metchosin, further than the usual 3.7 km. Metchosin grades A for health, #73 of 254 in British Columbia and #578 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Metchosin
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Metchosin is well below the typical town’s; 3.8% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Metchosin live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (14 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run low
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 18% of adults, diabetes for 5.9%. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy above the norm
Born around Metchosin, a child can expect 1.2 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.9 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Metchosin 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: #73 of 254 in British Columbia and #578 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.
18% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 5.9% 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
Self-reported obesity, 25%, sits within a few points of British Columbia (25%). Heavy drinking is commoner too (22% 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.
From Metchosin, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Metchosin, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Metchosin 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.
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
This region is 6th longest-lived of 16 in British Columbia, on a scale from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
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; Metchosin’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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.3 years of life
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Metchosin’s, lies beneath the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.1 about 84.0 years of life. Metchosin’s region falls short of it, at 82.7. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 83.5 years in the middle.
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.
54% in the region call their health very good or excellent, more 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 47% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Metchosin is 32nd nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,129 to 5,279 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Heritage SK B+ | 5,172 | 0.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Didsbury AB A+ | 5,185 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 30 | Carstairs AB A | 5,248 | 12 km | 56% |
| 31 | Electoral Area A, Cowichan Valley BC B− | 5,156 | 12 km | 47% |
| 32 | Metchosin BC A | 5,207 | 13 km | 55% |
| 33 | Coverdale NB C+ | 5,167 | 13 km | 43% |
| 34 | Centre Hastings ON D | 5,170 | 13 km | 45% |
| 40 | Marystown NL D− | 5,196 | 31 km | 44% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Metchosin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metchosin | 13 km | 55% | 82.7 | A |
| Colwood 7.2 km | 6.3 km | 55% | 82.7 | A+ |
| Langford 8.7 km | 6.3 km | 55% | 82.7 | A+ |
| View Royal 12 km | 1.4 km | 55% | 82.7 | A+ |
| New Songhees 1A 13 km | 2.2 km | 55% | 82.7 | A+ |
| Sooke 13 km | 23 km | 55% | 82.7 | A− |
| Esquimalt 13 km | 2.0 km | 55% | 82.7 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Metchosin’s; read across for the hospital trip. View Royal is the closest to care, 1.4 km to Metchosin’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Metchosin shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Metchosin
How is Metchosin’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Metchosin: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Metchosin from a hospital?
Residents of Metchosin have a clinic 7.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.5 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Metchosin?
Women in Metchosin’s region live to 84.9 on average and men to 80.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Metchosin?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 14% of adults.
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).