Few places match Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast for health: it beats 96% of Canadian towns
Adults here are more upbeat about their health than the province: 59% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. For Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast itself the measure is access, and it lags: 17 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast grades A+ for health, #39 of 254 in British Columbia and #183 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast is well below the typical town’s; 3.7% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, a child can expect 2.8 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 22.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 17 km. Getting care ↓
Less chronic illness
High blood pressure (16%) and diabetes (4%) keep the region’s chronic-condition figure below the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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. Its place: #39 of 254 in British Columbia and #183 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.
16% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 4% 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 23%, self-reported obesity is near British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% against 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 16 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
This region is 3rd 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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’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.
From Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 4.4 km for the typical town in British Columbia and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast 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.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.4 years short of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s region comes out below the trend.
Where residents average 1.7 on the index, regions tend to reach 85.7 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast belongs to trails at 84.3. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their 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.
Self-rated health beats British Columbia: 59% very good or excellent, against 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast comes 37th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,206 to 4,355 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown SK B+ | 4,282 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Beaupré QC A+ | 4,314 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Claresholm AB A+ | 4,242 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 35 | Richmond County, Subdivision A NS D | 4,305 | 17 km | 49% |
| 36 | Prescott ON C+ | 4,342 | 17 km | 51% |
| 37 | Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast BC A+ | 4,279 | 17 km | 59% |
| 38 | Saint-Ambroise QC A− | 4,262 | 18 km | 66% |
| 39 | Simonds NB D | 4,263 | 21 km | 43% |
| 40 | Eganville ON C− | 4,326 | 32 km | 50% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
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 E, Sunshine Coast | 17 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Gibsons 2.3 km | 19 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Electoral Area F, Sunshine Coast 6.0 km | 20 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Roberts Creek 6.7 km | 9.9 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Bowen Island 14 km | 15 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
| Sechelt 18 km | 3.0 km | 59% | 84.3 | A+ |
Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Sechelt is the closest to care, 3.0 km to Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. 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 E, Sunshine Coast’s own.
- 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 Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast
How healthy is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 12%.
What is the life expectancy in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast?
Women in Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s region live to 86.3 on average and men to 82.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast from a hospital?
Residents of Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast have a clinic 1.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.8 km away, in straight lines.
How is Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Electoral Area E, Sunshine Coast: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
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).