Photo: Northwest · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Guildford is ahead of 91% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in British Columbia (50%). Measured from where Guildford’s residents live, a hospital is 3.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. The Health grade for Guildford is A, #73 of 254 in British Columbia and #578 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Guildford
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Guildford is well below the typical town’s; 5.6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Longer lives in the region
Born around Guildford, a child can expect 1.7 more years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 22.1 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A lighter load of illness
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 16% of adults, diabetes for 6.7%. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 11 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.6 km off, Guildford is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Guildford 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: #73 of 254 in British Columbia and #578 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 6.7% diabetes
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
At 23%, self-reported obesity is near 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.
How the 16 health regions in British Columbia compare on life expectancy
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 Guildford’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.
Getting to hospital from Guildford: 3.6 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Guildford’s own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Guildford is ordinary: 4.4 km is the typical figure in British Columbia, 3.7 km for 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.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Guildford’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.3 about 83.4 years; Guildford’s region’s 83.2 is within a year of it. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 7 of the 10, around a median of 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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to British Columbia (50%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 51% very good or excellent against 49% for British Columbia; stress is a daily matter for 23%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Guildford is 27th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 14,430 to 14,922 people, median 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Maizerets QC A+ | 14,571 | 0.5 km | 62% |
| 2 | Saint-Louis QC A | 14,824 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Roncesvalles ON A | 14,725 | 0.8 km | 50% |
| 25 | Vales of Castlemore ON A− | 14,894 | 3.3 km | 49% |
| 26 | Hyde Park ON B+ | 14,769 | 3.6 km | 52% |
| 27 | Guildford BC A | 14,663 | 3.6 km | 50% |
| 28 | Lakewood SK B+ | 14,880 | 4.5 km | 49% |
| 29 | Bourg-Royal QC A+ | 14,430 | 4.7 km | 62% |
| 40 | Gravenhurst ON B | 14,576 | 16 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Guildford
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guildford | 3.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Johnston Heights 1.3 km | 2.9 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Birdland 1.6 km | 3.3 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Fraser Heights 2.2 km | 5.6 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Port Mann 3.0 km | 3.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Fleetwood 3.9 km | 4.1 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Whalley 4.0 km | 1.8 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
One health region covers Guildford 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
- 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.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Guildford shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Guildford
How is Guildford’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Guildford’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Guildford?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Guildford’s health region only: 85.8 years for women and 80.7 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Guildford?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. Chronic conditions there average 15% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Guildford from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Guildford live: 0.9 km to a clinic, 0.6 km to a pharmacy.
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).