Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainLife expectancy around Electoral Area C, Strathcona is 79.5 years, 2.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 54% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole manages 50%. Closer to home, a hospital is 11 km from the average resident of Electoral Area C, Strathcona, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Electoral Area C, Strathcona is B+, #143 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,294 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area C, Strathcona
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Electoral Area C, Strathcona’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 2.8 predicts: 79.5 years against 81.4. For its deprivation ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Electoral Area C, Strathcona live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (7.5 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 24% of adults, diabetes for 6.6%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Electoral Area C, 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. Its place: #143 of 254 in British Columbia and #1,294 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.
1.9 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Electoral Area C, Strathcona’s region’s dot is under the line.
Set against 102 regions on the deprivation index (correlation −0.83), the region Electoral Area C, Strathcona belongs to lives less long than its score of 2.8 predicts: 79.5 years, where the trend gives 81.4. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 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.
Getting to hospital from Electoral Area C, Strathcona: 11 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Electoral Area C, Strathcona, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Electoral Area C, Strathcona is on the far side.
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.
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 29% of adults against 25% for British Columbia.
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
Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 11th.
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 C, 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.
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 beats British Columbia as well: 52% very good or excellent to 49%, with 22% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Electoral Area C, Strathcona comes 26th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,938 to 3,022 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dewdney Place SK B+ | 3,021 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Buchanan ON B | 3,006 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 3 | Wawa ON C− | 2,943 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 24 | Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard QC A− | 3,018 | 8.8 km | 60% |
| 25 | McDougall ON C− | 3,002 | 11 km | 47% |
| 26 | Electoral Area C, Strathcona BC B+ | 2,981 | 11 km | 54% |
| 27 | Lac-des-Écorces QC A | 3,005 | 11 km | 60% |
| 28 | East Garafraxa ON B | 2,976 | 11 km | 51% |
| 40 | Markstay-Warren ON D | 2,990 | 32 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area C, 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 C, Strathcona | 11 km | 54% | 79.5 | B+ |
| Campbell River 9.5 km | 3.1 km | 54% | 79.5 | A− |
| Electoral Area B, Strathcona 17 km | 20 km | 54% | 79.5 | B |
| Electoral Area D (Oyster Bay - Buttle Lake), Strathcona 18 km | 12 km | 54% | 79.5 | B+ |
One health region covers Electoral Area C, Strathcona and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Electoral Area B, Strathcona live further from a hospital, at 20 km against 11 km in Electoral Area C, Strathcona.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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 Electoral Area C, Strathcona’s own.
Questions about health in Electoral Area C, Strathcona
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area C, Strathcona?
There is no figure for Electoral Area C, Strathcona alone; its health region’s is 82.3 for women and 76.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Electoral Area C, Strathcona from a hospital?
A clinic is 9.0 km from the average resident of Electoral Area C, Strathcona and a pharmacy 9.4 km, as the crow flies.
How is Electoral Area C, Strathcona’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Electoral Area C, Strathcona’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Electoral Area C, Strathcona?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).