Photo: Jarcardo · CC BY-SA 3.0Few places match Pitt Meadows for health: it beats 87% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 48%; British Columbia as a whole is at 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Pitt Meadows live 4.4 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Pitt Meadows a grade of A, #115 of 254 in British Columbia and #857 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pitt Meadows
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Pitt Meadows runs 2.9 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 22.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Pitt Meadows is well below the typical town’s; 5.7% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Pitt Meadows grades A 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: #115 of 254 in British Columbia and #857 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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health regions in British Columbia
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 2nd 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 Pitt Meadows’ 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.1%
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
Self-reported obesity, 19%, trails British Columbia (25%). Fewer adults drink heavily, 16% 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Pitt Meadows’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Pitt Meadows’ region is a typical case: 84.4 years at a score of 2.0, where the trend says 84.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 8 of the 10, around a median of 83.3 years.
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 4.4 km from the average home in Pitt Meadows
Straight-line distances from each part of Pitt Meadows, weighted by who lives there.
That is close to the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Pitt Meadows goes.
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.
49% 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
On mental health the region tracks British Columbia, 51% very good or excellent to 49%; 23% 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Pitt Meadows is 31st nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (20,318 to 21,479 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Édouard-Montpetit QC A | 20,601 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Upper Lachine QC A | 21,130 | 0.8 km | 54% |
| 29 | Dunbar-Southlands BC A+ | 21,117 | 4.0 km | 50% |
| 30 | Woodlawn NS B+ | 20,925 | 4.1 km | 51% |
| 31 | Pitt Meadows BC A | 20,892 | 4.4 km | 48% |
| 32 | Dorval QC A | 21,062 | 4.6 km | 54% |
| 33 | West Rouge ON A− | 20,915 | 4.8 km | 50% |
| 40 | Bridgenorth ON C | 20,628 | 14 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pitt Meadows
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pitt Meadows | 4.4 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Anniedale 6.2 km | 7.7 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Fraser Heights 6.7 km | 5.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Port Coquitlam 7.1 km | 3.4 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Maple Ridge 7.3 km | 4.1 km | 48% | 84.4 | A |
| Guildford 8.9 km | 3.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Birdland 9.7 km | 3.3 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
Not every neighbour shares the region: Anniedale’s life expectancy is 83.2, this region’s 84.4. Residents of Anniedale live further from a hospital, at 7.7 km against 4.4 km in Pitt Meadows.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Pitt Meadows’ own.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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 Pitt Meadows
What is the life expectancy in Pitt Meadows?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 86.6 for women, 82.1 for men around Pitt Meadows (2022/2024).
How is Pitt Meadows’ 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 Pitt Meadows’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Pitt Meadows?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Pitt Meadows from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.1 km from the average resident of Pitt Meadows and a pharmacy 1.5 km, as the crow flies.
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).