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C−Health Grade
Health in Sun Peaks Mountain · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada

The nearest hospital is 39 km from the average home in Sun Peaks Mountain

Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 48% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 1.5 km away on average and 1.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. The Health grade for Sun Peaks Mountain is C−.

48%very good or excellent health (region)78.8years, life expectancy (region)13%of adults smoke (region)
Very good or excellent health
48%
adults, age-standardised
British Columbia: 50% · The very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy numbers here cover the Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
British Columbia: 15%
Smokers
13%
daily or occasional, age-standardised
British Columbia: 8.9%
Life expectancy
78.8
at birth, 2022/2024
women 81.8 · men 76.0
Nearest hospital
39 km
residents’ average, straight line
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
What stands out · In brief

What stands out about health in Sun Peaks Mountain

78.8years of life expected; typical town’s region 81.5−1.7years against regions as deprived1.0situational vulnerability, national quintile (1–5)

A region where lives run shorter

Born around Sun Peaks Mountain, a child can expect 2.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓

Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts

Regions scoring 3.1 on the deprivation index typically live 80.5 years; Sun Peaks Mountain’s region, at 78.8, falls short. For its deprivation ↓

Easier circumstances

With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.0 out of 5, Sun Peaks Mountain sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓

Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.

Health Grade

Sun Peaks Mountain grades C− for health

Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.

Very good or excellent health (48%)Better than 25% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (39 km)Better than 5% of Canadian towns

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.

The wider area

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.

78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
13th
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia

Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024

Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6

Among the 16 regions in British Columbia, from 76.6 to 86.8 years, this one is 13th.

Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived

Residential instability4.0
Economic dependency1.0
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability1.0

These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Sun Peaks Mountain’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.

Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.

For its deprivation

Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.7 years short of the trend

Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Sun Peaks Mountain’s, lies beneath the trend.

646872768084882345Eastern Urban Zone: 80.2 (women 82.1, men 78.2)Eastern Rural Zone: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.4)Central Zone: 79.0 (women 80.5, men 77.4)Western Zone: 78.5 (women 81.1, men 76.0)Labrador-Grenfell Zone: 77.1 (women 79.2, men 74.6)Prince Edward Island: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.1)Zone 1 - Western: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.6)Zone 2 - Northern: 79.3 (women 81.5, men 77.1)Zone 3 - Eastern: 78.8 (women 80.9, men 76.6)Zone 4 - Central: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.3)Zone 1 (Moncton area): 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Zone 2 (Saint John area): 79.3 (women 81.1, men 77.3)Zone 3 (Fredericton area): 80.1 (women 81.9, men 78.2)Zone 4 (Edmundston area): 79.1 (women 80.7, men 77.3)Zone 5 (Campbellton area): 79.0 (women 82.3, men 75.3)Zone 6 (Bathurst area): 80.2 (women 82.7, men 77.8)Zone 7 (Miramichi area): 78.9 (women 82.0, men 75.7)Région du Bas-Saint-Laurent: 81.7 (women 83.1, men 80.3)Région du Saguenay—Lac-Saint-Jean: 81.8 (women 83.2, men 80.4)Région de la Capitale-Nationale: 82.9 (women 84.7, men 81.1)Région de la Mauricie et du Centre-du-Québec: 81.6 (women 83.3, men 79.9)Région de l'Estrie: 82.9 (women 84.8, men 81.0)Région de Montréal: 83.4 (women 85.5, men 81.2)Région de l'Outaouais: 80.7 (women 82.2, men 79.1)Région de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue: 79.5 (women 81.6, men 77.6)Région de la Côte-Nord: 79.4 (women 82.1, men 77.0)Région du Nord-du-Québec: 78.1 (women 78.5, men 77.6)Région de la Gaspésie—Îles-de-la-Madeleine: 79.9 (women 81.6, men 78.2)Région de la Chaudière-Appalaches: 82.8 (women 84.4, men 81.3)Région de Laval: 84.1 (women 85.7, men 82.4)Région de Lanaudière: 82.0 (women 83.7, men 80.3)Région des Laurentides: 82.2 (women 83.7, men 80.8)Région de la Montérégie: 82.5 (women 84.2, men 80.8)Région du Nunavik: 65.2 (women 70.3, men 60.7)Région des Terres-Cries-de-la-Baie-James: 76.8 (women 79.1, men 73.1)The District of Algoma Health Unit: 77.9 (women 80.4, men 75.6)Brant County Health Unit: 80.4 (women 82.6, men 78.2)Durham Regional Health Unit: 82.6 (women 84.7, men 80.5)Grey Bruce Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.6, men 78.9)Haldimand-Norfolk Health Unit: 79.6 (women 81.9, men 77.6)Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 79.0)Halton Regional Health Unit: 84.9 (women 86.5, men 83.2)City of Hamilton Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.5, men 79.0)Hastings and Prince Edward Counties Health Unit: 79.8 (women 81.8, men 77.8)Chatham-Kent Health Unit: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.3)Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington Health Unit: 81.8 (women 83.9, men 79.5)Lambton Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.2, men 77.8)Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.3, men 79.2)Middlesex-London Health Unit: 81.9 (women 84.2, men 79.6)Niagara Regional Area Health Unit: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Bay Parry Sound District Health Unit: 80.0 (women 82.6, men 77.6)Northwestern Health Unit: 73.7 (women 75.2, men 72.3)Huron Perth Health Unit: 81.7 (women 83.7, men 79.7)City of Ottawa Health Unit: 83.7 (women 85.7, men 81.6)Peel Regional Health Unit: 85.3 (women 87.2, men 83.3)Peterborough County—City Health Unit: 80.5 (women 82.8, men 78.1)Porcupine Health Unit: 77.3 (women 80.1, men 74.6)Renfrew County and District Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.7)The Eastern Ontario Health Unit: 81.0 (women 83.0, men 78.9)Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit: 81.5 (women 83.5, men 79.5)Sudbury and District Health Unit: 79.1 (women 82.0, men 76.3)Thunder Bay District Health Unit: 76.5 (women 79.0, men 74.1)Timiskaming Health Unit: 77.0 (women 80.3, men 73.6)Waterloo Health Unit: 82.8 (women 84.9, men 80.7)Wellington-Dufferin-Guelph Health Unit: 82.4 (women 84.5, men 80.2)Windsor-Essex County Health Unit: 81.3 (women 83.5, men 79.2)York Regional Health Unit: 86.3 (women 87.9, men 84.6)Oxford Elgin St. Thomas Health Unit: 80.6 (women 83.0, men 78.2)City of Toronto Health Unit: 84.7 (women 87.2, men 82.0)Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region: 80.0 (women 82.5, men 77.5)Prairie Mountain Health Region: 78.8 (women 81.2, men 76.6)Interlake-Eastern Health Region: 78.5 (women 81.3, men 76.0)Northern Health Region: 68.5 (women 70.5, men 66.9)Southern Health Region: 80.7 (women 82.9, men 78.7)Far North: 70.0 (women 72.8, men 67.3)North Central West: 76.6 (women 79.8, men 73.7)North Central East: 77.0 (women 79.6, men 74.5)Saskatoon: 81.4 (women 83.4, men 79.2)South West: 79.9 (women 82.5, men 77.5)South East: 78.6 (women 80.8, men 76.5)Regina: 80.2 (women 82.3, men 78.0)South Zone: 78.7 (women 80.6, men 76.8)Calgary Zone: 83.0 (women 85.0, men 80.9)Central Zone: 79.1 (women 81.7, men 76.6)Edmonton Zone: 81.2 (women 83.6, men 78.8)North Zone: 78.3 (women 80.9, men 76.1)East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area: 80.5 (women 82.7, men 78.1)Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.8, men 76.5)Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area: 81.0 (women 84.1, men 78.2)Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area: 78.8 (women 81.8, men 76.0)Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area: 80.0 (women 82.9, men 77.2)Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area: 84.4 (women 86.6, men 82.1)Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area: 83.2 (women 85.8, men 80.7)Richmond Health Service Delivery Area: 86.8 (women 89.0, men 84.4)Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area: 83.3 (women 86.5, men 80.2)North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area: 84.3 (women 86.3, men 82.3)South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 82.7 (women 84.9, men 80.5)Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.8 (women 82.6, men 77.1)North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: 79.5 (women 82.3, men 76.9)Northwest Health Service Delivery Area: 77.0 (women 79.2, men 75.0)Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area: 76.6 (women 79.5, men 74.0)Northeast Health Service Delivery Area: 76.9 (women 79.5, men 74.4)Sun Peaks Mountain’s region 78.8
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)

Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.1, the expected figure is 80.5 years, and Sun Peaks Mountain’s region falls below with 78.8. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, all live longer; the middle of the group is 80.9 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.

Conditions and habits

High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.2%

Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.

Conditions and weight · 2023/2024

High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
28%
Diabetes
8.2%
Obese (self-reported)
33%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
17%

Habits · 2023/2024

Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
12%
Heavy drinking
22%
British Columbia

Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 33% of adults against 25% for British Columbia. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 22% 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.

Getting care

Pharmacies around Sun Peaks Mountain: 1.0 within 3 km, the nearest 1.5 km away

Straight-line distances from each part of Sun Peaks Mountain, weighted by who lives there.

Hospital
39 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.2 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.5 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces

From Sun Peaks Mountain that is further than the 4.4 km of the typical town in British Columbia, and the 3.7 km of 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.

Health survey

Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 47% to 50%

The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).

Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024

Health very good or excellent
47%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
16%
Most days quite a bit stressful
23%
Strong sense of belonging
65%
Satisfied with life
83%
British Columbia

On mental health the region is ahead of British Columbia, 52% very good or excellent to 49%; 23% 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.

Neighbours

Health in the places around Sun Peaks Mountain

The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.

Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola: Health Grade C−Chase: Health Grade C−Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-NicolaChaseSun Peaks Mountain
ABCD
TownHospitalVery good healthLife exp.Health
Sun Peaks Mountain39 km48%78.8C−
Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola
16 km		28 km48%78.8C−
Chase
16 km		32 km48%78.8C−

One health region covers Sun Peaks Mountain and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • 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. 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Sun Peaks Mountain shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
  • Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
  • 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.

Questions about health in Sun Peaks Mountain

How far is Sun Peaks Mountain from a hospital?

Residents of Sun Peaks Mountain have a clinic 0.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.5 km away, in straight lines.

What is the life expectancy in Sun Peaks Mountain?

For the health region that includes Sun Peaks Mountain, women can expect 81.8 years and men 76.0 (2022/2024).

How is Sun Peaks Mountain’s Health Grade worked out?

It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Sun Peaks Mountain’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.

How healthy is Sun Peaks Mountain?

All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% 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).