Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainHealth in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet beats almost every Canadian town
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 59% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Closer to home, a hospital is 5.6 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet, further than the usual 3.7 km. Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet grades A+ for health.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet
Smoking runs low
Around Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet, only 3.7% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet 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 lighter load of illness
High blood pressure (16%) and diabetes (4%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Self-rated health runs high
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 7.6 points over the typical Canadian town’s, and 59% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (16%) and diabetes (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
Obesity tracks the province: 23% of adults here, 25% across British Columbia. More adults drink heavily, 23% 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.
Life expectancy across the 16 health 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
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
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 D, Squamish-Lillooet’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.
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
On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 55% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.4 years short of the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s region is below the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s region, at 1.7, should live about 85.7 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 84.3. It outlives 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose 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.
From Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet, a hospital is 5.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s own, not the region’s.
Against 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet sits near the middle.
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.
Health in the places around Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet
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 D, Squamish-Lillooet | 5.6 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Squamish 4.1 km | 3.7 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
One health region covers Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
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.
- 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. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet
How is Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet?
On every regional measure, the region does better than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 12% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet?
Women in Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet’s region live to 86.3 on average and men to 82.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet from a hospital?
A clinic is 4.6 km from the average resident of Electoral Area D, Squamish-Lillooet and a pharmacy 4.7 km, as the crow flies.
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).