Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainResidents of Electoral Area E, North Okanagan live 47 km from the nearest hospital on average
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 52% very good or excellent, 50% for British Columbia. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 47 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. The Health grade for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan is C+.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Set against regions as deprived (2.5), Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s region loses years: 81.0 where the trend says 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan takes a trip of 47 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Electoral Area E, North Okanagan at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area E, North Okanagan grades C+ 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.
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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s region is below the line.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.5 about 82.9 years of life. Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s region falls short of it, at 81.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 82.9 years). Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Everyday care in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan: the nearest pharmacy 47 km away, 0.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s own, not the region’s.
Electoral Area E, 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
The region comes 7th 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Self-reported obesity, 28%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% and 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 is no outlier: 48% say very good or excellent (British Columbia: 49%) and 26% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, 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 E, North Okanagan | 47 km | 52% | 81.0 | C+ |
| Electoral Area D, North Okanagan 19 km | 24 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s; read across for the hospital trip.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s own.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan
How far is Electoral Area E, North Okanagan from a hospital?
A clinic is 48 km from the average resident of Electoral Area E, North Okanagan and a pharmacy 47 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, North Okanagan?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s health region only: 84.1 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How is Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Electoral Area E, North Okanagan’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Electoral Area E, 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).