Photo: GoToVan from Vancouver, Canada · CC BY 2.052% of adults around Osoyoos rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 84.1 and men to 78.2, 81.0 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Osoyoos’ is long: 18 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Osoyoos is B−, #183 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,985 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Osoyoos
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Osoyoos the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 18 km. Getting care ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Osoyoos’ region falls short of what its deprivation score of 2.5 predicts: 81.0 years against 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Osoyoos’ neighbourhoods average 1.4 out of 5, among the least 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.
Osoyoos 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: #183 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,985 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.
From Osoyoos, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Osoyoos’ own, not the region’s.
Osoyoos 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.
1.9 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Osoyoos’ region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Osoyoos’ region’s: 81.0 years where the line expects 82.9 at 2.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 82.9 years). Judged by income, around $81,000 a household, the region would look poorly placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one outlives most.
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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Osoyoos’ own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
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%
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
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%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Osoyoos is 36th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,634 to 5,819 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Meadow Lake SK C | 5,667 | 0.6 km | 46% |
| 2 | Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire QC A+ | 5,764 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 3 | Montcalm MB B+ | 5,676 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 34 | Seguin ON D | 5,761 | 17 km | 47% |
| 35 | Waterloo QC A | 5,714 | 17 km | 57% |
| 36 | Osoyoos BC B− | 5,724 | 18 km | 52% |
| 37 | Havelock ON C− | 5,663 | 20 km | 47% |
| 38 | Shediac NB C | 5,699 | 22 km | 43% |
| 40 | Electoral Area B, Peace River BC D | 5,814 | 47 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Osoyoos
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 | 18 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Electoral Area A, Okanagan-Similkameen 1.7 km | 18 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Osoyoos 1 16 km | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Oliver 19 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Osoyoos’ health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Oliver is the closest to care, 1.2 km to Osoyoos’ 18 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Osoyoos itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Osoyoos
How is Osoyoos’ Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Osoyoos: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Osoyoos from a hospital?
For everyday care, Osoyoos’ residents are 1.2 km from a pharmacy and 50 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Osoyoos?
For the health region that includes Osoyoos, women can expect 84.1 years and men 78.2 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Osoyoos?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
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).