Few places match Sullivan for health: it beats 88% 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%. What sets Sullivan apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 6.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Sullivan grades A for health, #97 of 254 in British Columbia and #757 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sullivan
Fewer smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Sullivan is well below the typical town’s; 5.6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long-lived region
Born around Sullivan, 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
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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Sullivan has 9.0 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.9 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
Sullivan 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: #97 of 254 in British Columbia and #757 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
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.
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
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Sullivan’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting to hospital from Sullivan: 6.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sullivan’s own, not the region’s.
From Sullivan 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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Sullivan’s region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Sullivan belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.3 predicts: 83.2 years, the trend 83.4. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do worse (7 of 10), with a median of 82.9.
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
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.
Sullivan is 35th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 37,408 to 47,280 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Côte-Saint-Luc QC A | 37,901 | 1.0 km | 54% |
| 2 | Yaletown BC A+ | 40,297 | 1.1 km | 50% |
| 3 | Sault-Saint-Louis QC A | 47,270 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 33 | Pierrefonds-Est QC A | 38,928 | 6.0 km | 54% |
| 34 | Boucherville QC A | 41,910 | 6.3 km | 55% |
| 35 | Sullivan BC A | 42,135 | 6.5 km | 50% |
| 36 | Rouyn-Noranda QC B | 43,270 | 7.1 km | 57% |
| 37 | Paris ON C+ | 45,565 | 7.3 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lakeshore ON B− | 45,954 | 20 km | 52% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sullivan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sullivan | 6.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Panorama Ridge 2.7 km | 6.9 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Newton 3.1 km | 3.7 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Fleetwood 4.0 km | 4.1 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Surrey Centre 4.4 km | 9.1 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Colebrook 4.8 km | 8.3 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
| Strawberry Hill 5.1 km | 5.5 km | 50% | 83.2 | A |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Sullivan’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Sullivan’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
Questions about health in Sullivan
How is Sullivan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Sullivan’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Sullivan?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 85.8 for women, 80.7 for men around Sullivan (2022/2024).
How healthy is Sullivan?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 15%.
How far is Sullivan from a hospital?
For everyday care, Sullivan’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy and 1.0 km from a clinic on average.
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).