Health in Warfield · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Warfield’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.0 years: life expectancy 79.5
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 55%, ahead of the 50% for British Columbia. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Warfield live 3.6 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Warfield a grade of A−.
British Columbia: 50% · Measured across the Kootenay-Boundary Health Service Delivery Area: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
14%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For its ages, the region carries less long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 19% of adults, diabetes for 5.5%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Health Grade
Warfield 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.
Very good or excellent health (55%)Better than 65% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (14%)Better than 89% of Canadian towns
Smokers (9.9%)Better than 92% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.5)Better than 34% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (3.6 km)Better than 77% 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 5.5%
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
19%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
5.5%
Obese (self-reported)
28%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
11%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
9.8%
Smoke every day
6.5%
Heavy drinking
28%
British Columbia
More adults report obesity than across British Columbia: 28%, the province 25%. At 28%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 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.
For its deprivation
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 1.4 years short of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Warfield’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.0, the expected figure is 80.9 years, and Warfield’s region falls below with 79.5. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it trails the majority, 8 of 10; their median is 80.3 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.
Getting care
From Warfield, a hospital is 3.6 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Warfield’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
3.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
55 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.2 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
Nothing unusual for Warfield here: the typical town in British Columbia is 4.4 km from a hospital and the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
79.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.9
more years expected at 65
11th
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
Ranked 11th of 16 in British Columbia: the regions span 76.6 to 86.8 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.2
Economic dependency3.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability2.8
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Warfield’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
Self-rated health beats British Columbia: 53% very good or excellent, against 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
53%
Health fair or poor
18%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
19%
Most days quite a bit stressful
22%
Strong sense of belonging
75%
Satisfied with life
81%
British Columbia
Asked about their mental health, 48% of adults here said very good or excellent; across British Columbia it was 49%, and 22% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Warfield
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
RosslandTrailMontroseElectoral Area B (Lower Columbia-Old-Glory), Kootenay BoundaryFruitvaleElectoral Area A, Kootenay BoundaryWarfield
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Warfield’s regional figures. Electoral Area A, Kootenay Boundary is the furthest from care, 11 km to Warfield’s 3.6 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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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. 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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Warfield shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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 Warfield
What is the life expectancy in Warfield?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Warfield’s health region only: 82.8 years for women and 76.5 for men (2022/2024).
How is Warfield’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Warfield’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Warfield?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 14%.
How far is Warfield from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Warfield is 55 km from a clinic and 4.2 km from a pharmacy.