Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain52% of adults around Spallumcheen rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 84.1 and men to 78.2, 81.0 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Spallumcheen apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 5.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Spallumcheen is B, #152 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,634 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Spallumcheen
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Set against regions as deprived (2.5), Spallumcheen’s region loses years: 81.0 where the trend says 82.9. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Spallumcheen 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. Its place: #152 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,634 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 1.9 years of life
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Spallumcheen’s region’s dot is under the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Spallumcheen’s region, at 2.5, should live about 82.9 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 81.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 82.9 years). Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $81,000, less than in most regions, yet lives here are longer 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.9%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 28% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 25% 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.
From Spallumcheen, a hospital is 5.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Spallumcheen, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Spallumcheen is ordinary: 4.4 km is the typical figure in British Columbia, 3.7 km for 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.
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
Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 7th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Spallumcheen itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Mental health reads like the rest of British Columbia: 48% against 49%, and 26% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Spallumcheen is 29th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,728 to 5,948 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lowertown West ON A+ | 5,947 | 0.4 km | 56% |
| 2 | Vieux-Québec—Cap-Blanc—Colline parlementaire QC A+ | 5,764 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 3 | Central Frederick ON A | 5,895 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 27 | Cedarbrae AB A | 5,943 | 4.4 km | 56% |
| 28 | Sherwood/McCarthy SK B | 5,753 | 4.4 km | 49% |
| 29 | Spallumcheen BC B | 5,843 | 5.5 km | 52% |
| 30 | Val-David QC A+ | 5,920 | 6.7 km | 60% |
| 31 | Elsinore AB B | 5,796 | 6.9 km | 51% |
| 40 | Electoral Area B, Peace River BC D | 5,814 | 47 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Spallumcheen
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Spallumcheen | 5.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Armstrong 3.5 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
| Electoral Area B, North Okanagan 12 km | 6.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area C, North Okanagan 14 km | 7.5 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap 16 km | 15 km | 48% | 78.8 | C |
| Enderby 17 km | 14 km | 52% | 81.0 | B |
| Vernon 17 km | 3.0 km | 52% | 81.0 | B+ |
Across a regional line, Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap has its own figures: life expectancy 78.8, against 81.0 here. Residents of Electoral Area D, Columbia-Shuswap live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 5.5 km in Spallumcheen.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Spallumcheen itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Spallumcheen
How is Spallumcheen’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Spallumcheen has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Spallumcheen?
There is no figure for Spallumcheen alone; its health region’s is 84.1 for women and 78.2 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Spallumcheen from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Spallumcheen live: 18 km to a clinic, 12 km to a pharmacy.
How healthy is Spallumcheen?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 16% of adults.
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).