Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainLives run shorter around Rosedale: 80.0 years, 1.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
In the health survey, 47% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, fewer than British Columbia’s 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Rosedale’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Rosedale a grade of B−.
What stands out about health in Rosedale
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Rosedale the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 15 km. Getting care ↓
Fewer people feeling well
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 4.3 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 48% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Rosedale 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.
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 Rosedale: 15 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Rosedale, weighted by who lives there.
From Rosedale 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 48% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.5 years of life
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Rosedale’s region’s dot is under the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Rosedale belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.8 predicts: 80.0 years, where the trend gives 81.5. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 81.2 years). Its towns’ household income, about $88,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.9%
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
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 35%, the province 25%.
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.
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
The region comes 9th 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Rosedale’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Rosedale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rosedale | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Kent 5.3 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Harrison Hot Springs 12 km | 20 km | 47% | 80.0 | C+ |
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley 13 km | 12 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Skowkale 14 km | 3.7 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Chilliwack 15 km | 5.1 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Tzeachten 13 16 km | 6.4 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Rosedale’s regional figures. Residents of Skowkale live nearer a hospital, at 3.7 km against 15 km in Rosedale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Rosedale shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Rosedale
How far is Rosedale from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Rosedale live: 14 km to a clinic, 14 km to a pharmacy.
How is Rosedale’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 Rosedale’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Rosedale?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
What is the life expectancy in Rosedale?
There is no figure for Rosedale alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 77.2 for men in 2022/2024.
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).