Photo: Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0Expect 79.8 years of life in the region around Electoral Area C, Nanaimo, 1.7 under the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 47% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. What sets Electoral Area C, Nanaimo apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 8.2 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Electoral Area C, Nanaimo is B−, #193 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,029 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area C, Nanaimo
Behind regions as deprived
Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 2.8 predicts: 79.8 years against 81.7. For its deprivation ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 5.1 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
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.
Electoral Area C, Nanaimo 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: #193 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,029 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.9 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’s, lies beneath the trend.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’s region’s: 79.8 years where the line expects 81.7 at 2.8. Among the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, every one does better; they centre on 81.3 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 44% to 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 46% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 22% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (6.9%)
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
At 32%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 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 Electoral Area C, Nanaimo, a hospital is 8.2 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area C, Nanaimo, 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, Electoral Area C, Nanaimo is on the far 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.
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.
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 10th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’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.
Among 40 towns its size, Electoral Area C, Nanaimo is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,672 to 3,787 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 2 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 3 | Eau Claire AB A+ | 3,733 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 25 | Ascot Corner QC A | 3,725 | 6.1 km | 57% |
| 26 | Baie-D'Urfé QC A− | 3,706 | 7.4 km | 54% |
| 27 | Electoral Area C, Nanaimo BC B− | 3,733 | 8.2 km | 47% |
| 28 | Fifty Point ON B− | 3,690 | 8.4 km | 53% |
| 29 | Cowichan Bay BC B− | 3,713 | 9.8 km | 47% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area C, Nanaimo
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, Nanaimo | 8.2 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Nanaimo 3.4 km | 4.2 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Lantzville 7.7 km | 11 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Fairwinds 15 km | 11 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Nanaimo 16 km | 11 km | 47% | 79.8 | B− |
| Electoral Area B, Nanaimo 18 km | 12 km | 47% | 79.8 | C+ |
Electoral Area C, Nanaimo and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Residents of Electoral Area B, Nanaimo live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 8.2 km in Electoral Area C, Nanaimo.
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. 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Electoral Area C, Nanaimo itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Electoral Area C, Nanaimo
How healthy is Electoral Area C, Nanaimo?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 16%.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area C, Nanaimo?
Women in Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’s region live to 82.6 on average and men to 77.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’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 Electoral Area C, Nanaimo’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Electoral Area C, Nanaimo from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area C, Nanaimo have a clinic 7.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 5.0 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).