Photo: Original uploader was Fawcett5 at en.wikipedia Later version(s) were uploaded by Peteforsyth at en.wikipedia . · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 52% of adults in Penticton’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 81.0, with women at 84.1 and men at 78.2. What sets Penticton apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.9 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Penticton grades B+ for health, #145 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,346 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Penticton
Below the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 2.5 on the deprivation index typically live 82.9 years; Penticton’s region, at 81.0, falls short. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 5.4 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.0 km off, Penticton is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Penticton 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: #145 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,346 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Penticton’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 2.5 about 82.9 years of life. Penticton’s region falls short of it, at 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. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.9 km from the average home in Penticton
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Penticton’s own, not the region’s.
Penticton 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.
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
Self-reported obesity, 28%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 25% to the province’s 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 regions in British Columbia
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
The region comes 7th of 16 in British Columbia, where life expectancy runs from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
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 Penticton’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% and 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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 48% very good or excellent against 49% for British Columbia; stress is a daily matter for 26%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Penticton is 9th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 36,072 to 42,135 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mount Pleasant BC A+ | 37,091 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 3 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 7 | Orillia ON A− | 37,735 | 1.8 km | 54% |
| 8 | Kensington-Cedar Cottage BC A+ | 39,668 | 1.8 km | 50% |
| 9 | Penticton BC B+ | 39,068 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 10 | Pointe-Claire QC A | 37,437 | 2.0 km | 54% |
| 11 | Prince Albert SK D | 40,728 | 2.0 km | 47% |
| 40 | West Kelowna BC B | 40,274 | 8.5 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Penticton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Penticton | 1.9 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Penticton 1 4.4 km | 4.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area F, Okanagan-Similkameen 8.3 km | 7.2 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area I, Okanagan-Similkameen 11 km | 14 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Naramata 12 km | 7.7 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Okanagan Falls 13 km | 14 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Summerland 15 km | 2.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Penticton’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Okanagan Falls is the furthest from care, 14 km to Penticton’s 1.9 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Penticton alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 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.
Questions about health in Penticton
How is Penticton’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Penticton’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Penticton?
Women in Penticton’s region live to 84.1 on average and men to 78.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Penticton from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Penticton is 1.8 km from a clinic and 1.0 km from a pharmacy.
How healthy is Penticton?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. 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).