Photo: Sam Beebe · CC BY 2.0People in Terrace’s health region live to 77.0 on average, 4.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 42% very good or excellent, against 50% in British Columbia. Measured from where Terrace’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 1.6 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Terrace grades C− for health, #240 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,431 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Terrace
Fewer people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 9.8 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 42%. Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 22% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Terrace 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.
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: #240 of 254 in British Columbia and #2,431 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.
42% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in British Columbia (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
On mental health the region is behind British Columbia, 44% very good or excellent to 49%; 22% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
In the region, high blood pressure (22%) and diabetes (10%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 45%, self-reported obesity is above British Columbia’s 25%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (26% against 19%).
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.
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Terrace’s lies near the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Terrace’s region is a typical case: 77.0 years at a score of 3.9, where the trend says 77.6. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 8 still live longer, with 78.7 years in the middle. Judged by income, around $92,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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 Terrace, a hospital is 1.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Terrace’s own, not the region’s.
From Terrace 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.
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
Life expectancy in British Columbia runs from 76.6 to 86.8; this region sits 14th of the 16.
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 Terrace’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Terrace is 12th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,333 to 13,952 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Queen West ON A | 13,599 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Durand ON B+ | 13,338 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 10 | Beaurivage QC A | 13,574 | 1.5 km | 54% |
| 11 | Glebe-Dows Lake ON A+ | 13,436 | 1.5 km | 56% |
| 12 | Terrace BC C− | 13,648 | 1.6 km | 42% |
| 13 | Sandy Hill ON A+ | 13,830 | 1.6 km | 56% |
| 14 | Dawson Creek BC C+ | 13,635 | 1.7 km | 43% |
| 40 | Lorette MB C+ | 13,509 | 16 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Terrace
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Terrace | 1.6 km | 42% | 77.0 | C− |
| Electoral Area E, Kitimat-Stikine 4.3 km | 4.2 km | 42% | 77.0 | D |
| Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine 4.6 km | 17 km | 42% | 77.0 | D− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Terrace and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Electoral Area C (Part 1), Kitimat-Stikine live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 1.6 km in Terrace.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Terrace alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Terrace
What is the life expectancy in Terrace?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Terrace’s health region only: 79.2 years for women and 75.0 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Terrace?
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 21% of adults.
How is Terrace’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Terrace’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Terrace from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Terrace live: 254 km to a clinic, 1.4 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).