Photo: Gerry Thomasen from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0Life expectancy around Electoral Area B, Strathcona is 79.5 years, 2.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 54% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, more than British Columbia’s 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s is long: 20 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Electoral Area B, Strathcona is B.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area B, Strathcona
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Electoral Area B, Strathcona the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Fewer years than its deprivation would give
For a deprivation score of 2.8, the trend across regions gives 81.4 years of life; Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s region reaches only 79.5. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Electoral Area B, Strathcona takes a trip of 19 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (6.6%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area B, Strathcona 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.
From Electoral Area B, Strathcona, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area B, Strathcona, weighted by who lives there.
Electoral Area B, Strathcona is further out than the provincial norm of 4.4 km in British Columbia, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.9 years short of the trend
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 2.8, Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s region’s 79.5 years sit under the line’s 81.4. Each of the 10 regions scored most like it does better, with a median of 81.2.
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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 6.6% diabetes
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 29%, 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
This region is 11th longest-lived of 16 in British Columbia, on a scale from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Electoral Area B, Strathcona 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 51% and 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, 52% 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.
Health in the places around Electoral Area B, Strathcona
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 B, Strathcona | 20 km | 54% | 79.5 | B |
| Electoral Area C, Strathcona 17 km | 11 km | 54% | 79.5 | B+ |
One health region covers Electoral Area B, Strathcona 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
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Electoral Area B, Strathcona alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Electoral Area B, Strathcona
How far is Electoral Area B, Strathcona from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area B, Strathcona have a clinic 20 km away on average and a pharmacy 19 km away, in straight lines.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area B, Strathcona?
Women in Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s region live to 82.3 on average and men to 76.9, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Electoral Area B, Strathcona’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Electoral Area B, Strathcona has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Electoral Area B, Strathcona?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% 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).