People in Skowkale’s health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 47% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. Measured from where Skowkale’s residents live, a hospital is 3.7 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Skowkale is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Skowkale itself. Skowkale grades B for health.
What stands out about health in Skowkale
Self-rated health runs low
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 4.3 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 48%. Health survey ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 4.4 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.6 km off, Skowkale is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Skowkale 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.
Self-rated health trails British Columbia: 48% very good or excellent, against 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
The region’s 48% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of British Columbia’s 49%, with 23% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting to hospital from Skowkale: 3.7 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Skowkale, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Skowkale travel about as far as 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.
1.5 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Skowkale’s region comes out below the trend.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.8, Skowkale’s region’s 80.0 years sit under the line’s 81.5. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 9 of them above it, a median of 81.2. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $88,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (19%) and diabetes (8.9%)
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
At 35%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 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.
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 9th of the 16.
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; Skowkale’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 Skowkale
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skowkale | 3.7 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Chilliwack 1.3 km | 5.1 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Tzeachten 13 2.7 km | 6.4 km | 47% | 80.0 | B |
| Electoral Area E, Fraser Valley 10 km | 12 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Cultus Lake 13 km | 13 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Electoral Area C, Fraser Valley 14 km | 10 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
| Rosedale 14 km | 15 km | 47% | 80.0 | B− |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Skowkale’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Rosedale live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 3.7 km in Skowkale.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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 Skowkale’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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 Skowkale
How healthy is Skowkale?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Skowkale?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 77.2 for men around Skowkale (2022/2024).
How is Skowkale’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Skowkale has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
How far is Skowkale from a hospital?
For everyday care, Skowkale’s residents are 1.6 km from a pharmacy and 1.8 km from a clinic on average.
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).