Health in Ucluelet · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
A hospital trip from Ucluelet means 35 km on average, in a straight line
Across the region, 47% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; British Columbia as a whole reaches 50%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 0.8 km away on average and 1.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Ucluelet grades C for health.
British Columbia: 50% · Shared with the rest of the Central Vancouver Island Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
16%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Deprivation alone, a score of 2.8, would give Ucluelet’s region about 81.7 years; it stops at 79.8. For its deprivation ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Ucluelet, a child can expect 1.7 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 21.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 5.1 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (44% as answered). Health survey ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Ucluelet 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 (47%)Better than 18% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (16%)Better than 58% of Canadian towns
Smokers (12%)Better than 76% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.8)Better than 37% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (35 km)Better than 6% 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.9 years short of the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Ucluelet’s, lies beneath the trend.
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 2.8 would suggest 81.7 years, but Ucluelet’s region stops at 79.8. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 81.3.
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.
The wider area
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.
79.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
21.0
more years expected at 65
10th
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, 10th 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 instability4.4
Economic dependency1.8
Ethno-cultural composition3.2
Situational vulnerability2.7
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Ucluelet’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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in British Columbia: 44% to 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
44%
Health fair or poor
17%
Mental health very good or excellent
46%
Mental health fair or poor
17%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
59%
Satisfied with life
82%
British Columbia
On mental health the region is behind British Columbia, 46% 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (6.9%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
31%
Diabetes
6.9%
Obese (self-reported)
32%
Mood disorder
15%
Anxiety disorder
14%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
11%
Smoke every day
8.3%
Heavy drinking
22%
British Columbia
Self-reported obesity, 32%, tops British Columbia (25%). More adults drink heavily, 22% to the province’s 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.
Getting care
Everyday care in Ucluelet: the nearest pharmacy 0.8 km away, 1.0 within 3 km
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ucluelet’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
35 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
66 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Ucluelet 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.
Only the hospital column is local here: Ucluelet and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Ucluelet itself is the trip to care.
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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.
Questions about health in Ucluelet
How far is Ucluelet from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Ucluelet live: 66 km to a clinic, 0.8 km to a pharmacy.
How is Ucluelet’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Ucluelet: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Ucluelet?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 16% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Ucluelet?
Women in Ucluelet’s region live to 82.6 on average and men to 77.1, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
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