Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.0, women 84.1 and men 78.2 (2022/2024). What sets Electoral Area D, North Okanagan apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 24 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Electoral Area D, North Okanagan a grade of B−, #196 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,040 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
A long way to hospital
Distance is Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s own health question: 16% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 27 km. Getting care ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
Regions scoring 2.5 on the deprivation index typically live 82.9 years; Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s region, at 81.0, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan takes a trip of 24 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s neighbourhoods average 4.2 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area D, North Okanagan 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: #196 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,040 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.
Getting to hospital from Electoral Area D, North Okanagan: 24 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area D, North Okanagan, weighted by who lives there.
Electoral Area D, North Okanagan is further out than the provincial norm of 4.4 km in British Columbia, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 1.9 years behind the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.5, the expected figure is 82.9 years, and Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s region falls below with 81.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 82.9 years). Households here earn around $81,000, less than in most regions, but the region still outlives 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.
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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 7th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Electoral Area D, North Okanagan itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% diabetes
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 28%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (25% 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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across British Columbia (48% against 49%), while 26% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Electoral Area D, North Okanagan comes 37th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,130 to 3,240 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Cedar Hill ON A | 3,190 | 0.6 km | 53% |
| 3 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 35 | Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine BC D− | 3,189 | 17 km | 42% |
| 36 | Thorhild County AB D− | 3,147 | 22 km | 48% |
| 37 | Electoral Area D, North Okanagan BC B− | 3,184 | 24 km | 52% |
| 38 | Greater Madawaska ON C− | 3,234 | 24 km | 50% |
| 39 | Percé QC C | 3,137 | 27 km | 56% |
| 40 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts QC B | 3,190 | 28 km | 61% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
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 D, North Okanagan | 24 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Lumby 5.7 km | 21 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Electoral Area E, North Okanagan 19 km | 47 km | 52% | 81.0 | C+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Electoral Area D, North Okanagan and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Electoral Area E, North Okanagan live further from a hospital, at 47 km against 24 km in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Electoral Area D, North Okanagan shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan
How far is Electoral Area D, North Okanagan from a hospital?
A clinic is 26 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, North Okanagan and a pharmacy 24 km, as the crow flies.
How is Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan?
Women in Electoral Area D, North Okanagan’s region live to 84.1 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Electoral Area D, North Okanagan?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).