Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Okanagan (Part) 1’s health region
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 81.0 years at birth, 84.1 for women and 78.2 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Okanagan (Part) 1’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Okanagan (Part) 1 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Okanagan (Part) 1 itself. The Health grade for Okanagan (Part) 1 is B.
What stands out about health in Okanagan (Part) 1
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Set against regions as deprived (2.5), Okanagan (Part) 1’s region loses years: 81.0 where the trend says 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Okanagan (Part) 1 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 km. Getting care ↓
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.
Okanagan (Part) 1 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.
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.
The region lives 1.9 years less than its deprivation predicts
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Okanagan (Part) 1’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.5, Okanagan (Part) 1’s region’s 81.0 years sit under the line’s 82.9. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 9 of 10; their median is 82.9 years. Modest pay, about $81,000 a household, and long lives sit side by side here: across regions, income and life expectancy hardly move together (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.
The nearest hospital is 11 km from the average home in Okanagan (Part) 1
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Okanagan (Part) 1’s own, not the region’s.
Okanagan (Part) 1 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.9%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 28% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% to 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.
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 7th.
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 Okanagan (Part) 1’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 48% of adults here said very good or excellent; across British Columbia it was 49%, and 26% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Okanagan (Part) 1
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Okanagan (Part) 1 | 11 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Vernon 9.1 km | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area B, North Okanagan 11 km | 6.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area C, North Okanagan 13 km | 7.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Coldstream 15 km | 5.1 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Central Okanagan West 19 km | 22 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Spallumcheen 19 km | 5.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Okanagan (Part) 1’s regional figures. Residents of Central Okanagan West live further from a hospital, at 22 km against 11 km in Okanagan (Part) 1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Okanagan (Part) 1 itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Okanagan (Part) 1
How is Okanagan (Part) 1’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Okanagan (Part) 1’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
How far is Okanagan (Part) 1 from a hospital?
Residents of Okanagan (Part) 1 have a clinic 8.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 8.8 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Okanagan (Part) 1?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Okanagan (Part) 1’s health region only: 84.1 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Okanagan (Part) 1?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 16%.
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).