Photo: Clee7903 · CC BY-SA 4.0Johnston Heights scores better for health than 91% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; British Columbia as a whole is at 50%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Johnston Heights live 2.9 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Johnston Heights a grade of A, #60 of 254 in British Columbia and #508 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Johnston Heights
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Johnston Heights is well below the typical town’s; 5.6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Life expectancy in the region around Johnston Heights runs 1.7 years ahead of the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 22.1 more years (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 ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Johnston Heights has 13 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.7 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Johnston Heights 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: #60 of 254 in British Columbia and #508 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
On weight the region is ordinary for British Columbia: 23% report obesity, 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.
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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 5th of the 16.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Johnston Heights’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Johnston Heights, a hospital is 2.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Johnston Heights, weighted by who lives there.
From Johnston Heights that is nearer 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Johnston Heights’ lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Johnston Heights’ region is a typical case: 83.2 years at a score of 2.3, where the trend says 83.4. 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in British Columbia: 50% and 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.
Among 40 towns its size, Johnston Heights is 24th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (29,077 to 32,869 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Verdun-Centre QC A | 30,304 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 2 | Centretown ON A+ | 32,035 | 0.5 km | 56% |
| 3 | Vieux-Lachine - Saint-Pierre QC A | 31,113 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 22 | Killarney BC A+ | 32,167 | 2.7 km | 50% |
| 23 | Alma QC A | 30,659 | 2.8 km | 66% |
| 24 | Johnston Heights BC A | 30,971 | 2.9 km | 50% |
| 25 | Du Plateau QC B | 29,234 | 4.0 km | 55% |
| 26 | Pierrefonds-Ouest QC A | 30,978 | 4.3 km | 54% |
| 40 | Conception Bay South NL C+ | 29,725 | 17 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Johnston Heights
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Johnston Heights and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Johnston Heights alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Johnston Heights
What is the life expectancy in Johnston Heights?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.8 for women, 80.7 for men around Johnston Heights (2022/2024).
How healthy is Johnston Heights?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 15% of adults.
How far is Johnston Heights from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Johnston Heights live: 1.1 km to a clinic, 0.7 km to a pharmacy.
How is Johnston Heights’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Johnston Heights’ own distance to care, against 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).