Photo: Mengqiu Chen · CC BY 3.0Electoral Area E, Peace River’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 4.6 years: life expectancy 76.9
In the health survey, 43% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. What sets Electoral Area E, Peace River apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 23 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Electoral Area E, Peace River grades C− for health, #244 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,447 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, Peace River
Far from a hospital
Distance is Electoral Area E, Peace River’s own health question: 24% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 11 km. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 8.9 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Electoral Area E, Peace River, a pharmacy is 23 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Electoral Area E, Peace River at 4.1 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, 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: #244 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,447 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 Electoral Area E, Peace River, a hospital is 23 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area E, Peace River’s own, not the region’s.
From Electoral Area E, 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 11 km, while the average resident is 23 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.
44% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in British Columbia (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 looks weaker than in the province: 42% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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 15th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Electoral Area E, Peace River’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Electoral Area E, Peace River’s, lies beneath the trend.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.9 about 77.7 years of life. Electoral Area E, Peace River’s region falls short of it, at 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
At 35%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%.
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Electoral Area E, Peace River is 35th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,703 to 2,770 people, median 6.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Waterridge Village ON A+ | 2,737 | 0.6 km | 56% |
| 2 | Kuujjuaq QC | 2,766 | 0.7 km | – |
| 3 | Kameyosek AB B+ | 2,761 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 33 | Meadow Lake No. 588 SK D | 2,712 | 21 km | 46% |
| 34 | Vars ON A− | 2,767 | 23 km | 56% |
| 35 | Electoral Area E, Peace River BC C− | 2,737 | 23 km | 43% |
| 36 | Plessisville QC B+ | 2,718 | 24 km | 61% |
| 37 | Electoral Area I, Central Kootenay BC B | 2,758 | 25 km | 55% |
| 40 | Waskaganish QC | 2,726 | 132 km | – |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, 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 E, Peace River | 23 km | 43% | 76.9 | C− |
| Chetwynd 8.9 km | 2.6 km | 43% | 76.9 | C |
Only the hospital column is local here: Electoral Area E, Peace River and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Chetwynd is the closest to care, 2.6 km to Electoral Area E, Peace River’s 23 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Electoral Area E, Peace River itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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 Electoral Area E, Peace River
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, Peace River?
For the health region that includes Electoral Area E, Peace River, women can expect 79.5 years and men 74.4 (2022/2024).
How far is Electoral Area E, Peace River from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Electoral Area E, Peace River is 23 km from a clinic and 23 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Electoral Area E, Peace River?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Electoral Area E, Peace River’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area E, Peace River: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with 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).