Photo: calind · CC BY-SA 3.0Electoral Area D, Peace River’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 4.6 years: life expectancy 76.9
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 43% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 19 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, Peace River, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Electoral Area D, Peace River a grade of C−, #238 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,415 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area D, Peace River
A long way to hospital
For 14% of homes in Electoral Area D, Peace River the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 8.4 km. Getting care ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.9 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Electoral Area D, Peace River, a pharmacy is 18 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. 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.
Electoral Area D, Peace River 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. Its place: #238 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,415 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, Peace River: 19 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area D, Peace River, weighted by who lives there.
From Electoral Area D, Peace River that is further than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 8.4 km, while the average resident is 19 km away.
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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 44% very good or excellent, against 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
On mental health the region is behind British Columbia, 42% very good or excellent to 49%; 25% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Electoral Area D, Peace River’s lies below the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.7 years, and Electoral Area D, Peace River’s region falls below with 76.9. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 78.7 years in the middle. Judged by income, around $98,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (6.4%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 35% of adults against 25% for British Columbia.
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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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
This region is 15th longest-lived of 16 in British Columbia, on a scale from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Electoral Area D, Peace River’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Electoral Area D, Peace River comes 37th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,024 to 5,175 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Alexander MB B+ | 5,161 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Heritage SK B+ | 5,172 | 0.5 km | 49% |
| 3 | Nipawin SK C− | 5,033 | 0.9 km | 47% |
| 35 | Morin-Heights QC A | 5,086 | 17 km | 60% |
| 36 | Kneehill County AB C | 5,129 | 17 km | 52% |
| 37 | Electoral Area D, Peace River BC C− | 5,100 | 19 km | 43% |
| 38 | Gibsons BC A+ | 5,090 | 19 km | 59% |
| 39 | Saint-Donat QC B | 5,087 | 29 km | 56% |
| 40 | Big Lakes County AB D− | 5,106 | 53 km | 48% |
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, Peace River
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, Peace River | 19 km | 43% | 76.9 | C− |
| Dawson Creek 8.0 km | 1.7 km | 43% | 76.9 | C+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Electoral Area D, Peace River from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Dawson Creek is the closest to care, 1.7 km to Electoral Area D, Peace River’s 19 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 D, Peace River’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Electoral Area D, Peace River
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area D, Peace River?
There is no figure for Electoral Area D, Peace River alone; its health region’s is 79.5 for women and 74.4 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Electoral Area D, Peace River?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Electoral Area D, Peace River from a hospital?
A clinic is 18 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, Peace River and a pharmacy 18 km, as the crow flies.
How is Electoral Area D, Peace River’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, Peace River’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
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).