Health in Taylor · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Taylor is 76.9 years, 4.6 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 43% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. For Taylor itself the measure is access, and it lags: 14 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Taylor is C−.
British Columbia: 50% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Northeast Health Service Delivery Area
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 8.9 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 44%. Health survey ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Taylor’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Taylor at 4.3 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Taylor grades C− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
Very good or excellent health (43%)Better than 5% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 50% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.9)Better than 6% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (14 km)Better than 44% of Canadian towns
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.
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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 44% to 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
Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
21%
Mental health very good or excellent
42%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
25%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 42% rate it very good or excellent, against 49% in British Columbia, and 25% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Getting care
From Taylor, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Taylor’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
14 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
14 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
13 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Taylor 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.
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.
76.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
18.5
more years expected at 65
15th
longest of 16 regions in British Columbia
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Richmond Health Service Delivery Area86.8
Fraser North Health Service Delivery Area84.4
North Shore/Coast Garibaldi Health Service Delivery Area84.3
Vancouver Health Service Delivery Area83.3
Fraser South Health Service Delivery Area83.2
South Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area82.7
Okanagan Health Service Delivery Area81.0
East Kootenay Health Service Delivery Area80.5
Fraser East Health Service Delivery Area80.0
Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.8
Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area79.5
North Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area79.5
Thompson/Cariboo Health Service Delivery Area78.8
Northwest Health Service Delivery Area77.0
Northeast Health Service Delivery Area76.9
Northern Interior Health Service Delivery Area76.6
Of the 16 health regions in British Columbia, 15th place goes to this one, between a low of 76.6 and a high of 86.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency1.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability4.3
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Taylor’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.
For its deprivation
Behind regions as deprived by 0.8 years of life
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Taylor’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 3.9 would suggest 77.7 years, but Taylor’s region stops at 76.9. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 78.7 years. A household income of about $98,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (6.4%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
20%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
6.4%
Obese (self-reported)
35%
Mood disorder
16%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
20%
British Columbia
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 35%, 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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Taylor
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Taylor and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Fort St. John live nearer a hospital, at 1.3 km against 14 km in Taylor.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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 Taylor’s own.
Questions about health in Taylor
What is the life expectancy in Taylor?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 79.5 for women, 74.4 for men around Taylor (2022/2024).
How healthy is Taylor?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Taylor from a hospital?
A clinic is 14 km from the average resident of Taylor and a pharmacy 13 km, as the crow flies.
How is Taylor’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Taylor’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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