Photo: Bernard Samuel Fenn · Public domainPeople in Mission’s health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 47% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Mission live 3.3 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. The Health grade for Mission is B, #166 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,851 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mission
Less upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.3 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 48% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Mission can reach 6.4 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 2.1 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Mission 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: #166 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,851 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.
48% 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
Mental health reads like the rest of British Columbia: 48% against 49%, and 23% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Mission: 3.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mission’s own, not the region’s.
Against 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Mission sits near the middle.
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.5 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Mission’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Mission belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.8 predicts: 80.0 years, where the trend gives 81.5. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 81.2 years. Households here earn around $88,000, 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.9%)
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 35%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%.
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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
Regional life expectancy in British Columbia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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 9th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Mission’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Among 40 towns its size, Mission is 15th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 41,910 to 54,539 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 2 | Saint-Eustache QC A+ | 47,562 | 1.4 km | 60% |
| 3 | Cornwall ON B− | 54,346 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 13 | Pointe-aux-Trembles QC A | 49,869 | 3.0 km | 54% |
| 14 | Charlottetown PE B | 48,118 | 3.3 km | 51% |
| 15 | Mission BC B | 47,280 | 3.3 km | 47% |
| 16 | Timmins ON C | 45,569 | 3.6 km | 48% |
| 17 | Newton BC A | 51,222 | 3.7 km | 50% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mission
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mission | 3.3 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Electoral Area G, Fraser Valley 7.5 km | 10 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Electoral Area F, Fraser Valley 11 km | 12 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Abbotsford 11 km | 3.6 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Mission’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Electoral Area F, Fraser Valley live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 3.3 km in Mission.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Mission shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Mission
How is Mission’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Mission’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Mission?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Mission?
There is no figure for Mission alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 77.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Mission from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mission is 3.2 km from a clinic and 2.1 km from a pharmacy.
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).