Health in Revelstoke · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Revelstoke: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. For Revelstoke itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Revelstoke a grade of C+, #210 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,136 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
British Columbia: 50% · Source area for very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy: the Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Revelstoke’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 3.1 predicts: 78.8 years against 80.5. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Revelstoke 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.
Very good or excellent health (48%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.4 km)Better than 83% of Canadian towns
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: #210 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,136 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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 1.7 years less than its deprivation predicts
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Revelstoke’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Revelstoke’s region’s: 78.8 years where the line expects 80.5 at 3.1. Among the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, every one does better; they centre on 80.9 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
28%
Diabetes
8.2%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
17%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
22%
British Columbia
Self-reported obesity, 33%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 22% 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.
Getting care
From Revelstoke, a hospital is 2.4 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Revelstoke, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
58 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.7 km
residents’ average distance
1.9 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Revelstoke is closer in than the provincial norm of 4.4 km in British Columbia, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
13th
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
The region comes 13th 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
Residential instability3.4
Economic dependency1.4
Ethno-cultural composition2.7
Situational vulnerability2.5
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Revelstoke’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.
Health survey
47% 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
Health very good or excellent
47%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
83%
British Columbia
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across British Columbia (52% against 49%), while 23% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Towns its size
Among 40 towns its size, Revelstoke is 14th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,254 to 9,682 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Revelstoke itself is the trip to care.
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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.
Questions about health in Revelstoke
What is the life expectancy in Revelstoke?
There is no figure for Revelstoke alone; its health region’s is 81.8 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Revelstoke?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How is Revelstoke’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Revelstoke: 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 Revelstoke from a hospital?
Residents of Revelstoke have a clinic 58 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.7 km away, in straight lines.
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