Photo: Larry LaRose · CC BY-SA 3.0Health in Colebrook beats 86% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for British Columbia: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Colebrook’s is long: 8.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Colebrook grades A for health, #118 of 254 in British Columbia and #871 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Colebrook
Fewer smokers
Around Colebrook, only 5.6% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Colebrook’s region sits 1.7 years above the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 22.1 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Long-term conditions run low
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are rarer here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 16% report high blood pressure and 6.7% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Colebrook 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: #118 of 254 in British Columbia and #871 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.
High blood pressure for 16% of adults in the region, diabetes for 6.7%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
About as many adults report obesity as across British Columbia: 23%, the province 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
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
The region comes 5th of 16 in British Columbia, where life expectancy runs from 76.6 to 86.8 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Colebrook’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Colebrook’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Colebrook belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.2 years, the trend 83.4. Even beside regions as deprived, it stands out: 7 of its 10 closest matches fall short, their median 82.9 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.
From Colebrook, a hospital is 8.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Colebrook’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Colebrook travel further than most of the province: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
Self-rated health much as in British Columbia: 50% 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
For 23% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near British Columbia’s 49%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Colebrook is 25th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,568 to 3,668 people, median 5.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Eaglemere MB B+ | 3,631 | 0.7 km | 52% |
| 23 | Dunham QC A | 3,632 | 6.8 km | 57% |
| 24 | Woodbridge Meadows ON A− | 3,651 | 8.1 km | 51% |
| 25 | Colebrook BC A | 3,617 | 8.3 km | 50% |
| 26 | Studholm NB C− | 3,668 | 9.5 km | 43% |
| 27 | Prince Albert No. 461 SK D | 3,589 | 9.9 km | 47% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Colebrook
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Colebrook | 8.3 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Panorama Ridge 2.1 km | 6.9 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Strawberry Hill 3.4 km | 5.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Sullivan 4.8 km | 6.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Newton 5.0 km | 3.7 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Crescent Heights 6.5 km | 5.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Anderson Walk 6.9 km | 4.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Colebrook’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Newton live nearer a hospital, at 3.7 km against 8.3 km in Colebrook.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Colebrook itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
Questions about health in Colebrook
How is Colebrook’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Colebrook’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Colebrook?
For the health region that includes Colebrook, women can expect 85.8 years and men 80.7 (2022/2024).
How far is Colebrook from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.7 km from the average resident of Colebrook and a pharmacy 1.7 km, as the crow flies.
How healthy is Colebrook?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. 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).