Photo: Extemporalist · CC0Very good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Peachland’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 81.0 years on average: women 84.1, men 78.2, in 2022/2024. Closer to home, a hospital is 19 km from the average resident of Peachland, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Peachland is B−, #186 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,994 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Peachland
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Peachland the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (2.5), Peachland’s region loses years: 81.0 where the trend says 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Easier circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Peachland’s neighbourhoods average 1.5 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.
Peachland 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: #186 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,994 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 Peachland: 19 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Peachland, weighted by who lives there.
From Peachland 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.
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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Peachland’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.5, the expected figure is 82.9 years, and Peachland’s region falls below with 81.0. 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. Lower incomes, longer lives: about $81,000 a household, under most regions’, with a life expectancy above most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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
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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Peachland’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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.9% diabetes
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 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%)
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
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.
Peachland is 38th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (6,197 to 6,407 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beasley ON B+ | 6,338 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Neepawa MB B− | 6,328 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Cherry Hill ON A | 6,304 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 36 | Dutch Settlement NS B− | 6,234 | 16 km | 51% |
| 37 | Willow Creek No. 26 AB C+ | 6,225 | 17 km | 52% |
| 38 | Peachland BC B− | 6,302 | 19 km | 52% |
| 39 | Hubley NS B− | 6,337 | 19 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lanark Highlands ON C+ | 6,370 | 21 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Peachland
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peachland | 19 km | 52% | 81.0 | B− |
| Tsinstikeptum 9 12 km | 9.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| West Kelowna 13 km | 8.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Tsinstikeptum 10 19 km | 3.4 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Peachland’s; read across for the hospital trip. Tsinstikeptum 10 is the closest to care, 3.4 km to Peachland’s 19 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Peachland itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Peachland
How far is Peachland from a hospital?
A clinic is 9.7 km from the average resident of Peachland and a pharmacy 2.3 km, as the crow flies.
How is Peachland’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Peachland’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Peachland?
Women in Peachland’s region live to 84.1 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Peachland?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).