Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainHealth in Electoral Area C, qathet beats 98% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 59% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Electoral Area C, qathet’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Electoral Area C, qathet grades A+ for health.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area C, qathet
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Electoral Area C, qathet than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 3.7% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Life expectancy in the region around Electoral Area C, qathet runs 2.8 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 22.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Electoral Area C, qathet live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (13 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 16% of adults, diabetes for 4%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area C, qathet 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.
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.
High blood pressure for 16% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
On weight the region is ordinary for British Columbia: 23% report obesity, the province 25%. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 23% to 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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 3rd of the 16.
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 C, qathet’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.
The nearest hospital is 15 km from the average home in Electoral Area C, qathet
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area C, qathet’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Electoral Area C, qathet travel further than most of the province: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
The region lives 1.4 years less than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Electoral Area C, qathet’s region is below the line.
Where residents average 1.7 on the index, regions tend to reach 85.7 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Electoral Area C, qathet belongs to trails at 84.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 83.5 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.
More people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 59% to 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 beats British Columbia as well: 55% very good or excellent to 49%, with 22% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Electoral Area C, qathet
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 C, qathet | 15 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Electoral Area B, qathet 8.9 km | 6.3 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Electoral Area D, qathet 13 km | 16 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Powell River 13 km | 2.6 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Electoral Area C, qathet’s; read across for the hospital trip. Powell River is the closest to care, 2.6 km to Electoral Area C, qathet’s 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Electoral Area C, qathet itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Electoral Area C, qathet
How healthy is Electoral Area C, qathet?
The region beats the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 12% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area C, qathet?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Electoral Area C, qathet’s health region only: 86.3 years for women and 82.3 for men (2022/2024).
How is Electoral Area C, qathet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area C, qathet: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Electoral Area C, qathet from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area C, qathet have a clinic 46 km away on average and a pharmacy 14 km away, in straight lines.
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).