Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain52% of adults around Osoyoos 1 rate their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.0, women 84.1 and men 78.2 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Osoyoos 1 live 3.0 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Osoyoos 1 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Osoyoos 1. Osoyoos 1 grades B+ for health.
What stands out about health in Osoyoos 1
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.5, would give Osoyoos 1’s region about 82.9 years; it stops at 81.0. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Osoyoos 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Osoyoos 1’s region is below the line.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.5, Osoyoos 1’s region’s 81.0 years sit under the line’s 82.9. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% diabetes
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.
Getting to hospital from Osoyoos 1: 3.0 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Osoyoos 1, weighted by who lives there.
Osoyoos 1 is closer in 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.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Osoyoos 1’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of British Columbia: 48% against 49%, and 26% 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.
Health in the places around Osoyoos 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Osoyoos 1 | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Oliver 4.4 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area C, Okanagan-Similkameen 6.2 km | 6.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Osoyoos 16 km | 18 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Electoral Area B, Okanagan-Similkameen 17 km | 7.7 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area A, Okanagan-Similkameen 18 km | 18 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
Same region, same survey: Osoyoos 1’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Electoral Area A, Okanagan-Similkameen live further from a hospital, at 18 km against 3.0 km in Osoyoos 1.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Osoyoos 1 itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Osoyoos 1
How is Osoyoos 1’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Osoyoos 1’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
What is the life expectancy in Osoyoos 1?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Osoyoos 1’s health region only: 84.1 years for women and 78.2 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Osoyoos 1 from a hospital?
A clinic is 34 km from the average resident of Osoyoos 1 and a pharmacy 3.6 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Osoyoos 1?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).