How far is the nearest hospital from my BC property?

What the answer means

The nearest hospital

The report names the nearest of the 81 hospitals on the Province's Hospitals in BC list (HealthLinkBC, updated 2026-10-01) and the next nearest, from the lot's middle. A hospital's pavilions and buildings count as one hospital; day surgery and outpatient centres are left out.

Straight line, not road

The distance is a straight line. The road can be far longer, around a lake, over a pass or by ferry, and in winter a pass can close or slow to a crawl. Time the drive yourself, in winter if you can.

Emergency care

Not every hospital on the list has an emergency department open 24 hours a day, and some rural emergency departments close for a shift or a weekend when they're short of staff.

Health centres

Some small towns have a health centre with emergency or urgent care that isn't on the Province's hospital list, so the nearest place to get care can be closer than the nearest hospital.

Over the border

The Province's list includes one hospital outside BC, Whitehorse General Hospital in the Yukon, so a place in the far north can have it as its nearest.

What it means for a buyer

Ask the regional health authority where the nearest emergency department open around the clock is, what the nearest health centre offers, and how an ambulance or air ambulance reaches the lot. The report's Services section also gives the nearest ambulance station.

Distances are straight lines measured by us to the hospitals on the Province's list as updated 2026-10-01; a hospital's services and hours change, and the list can lag a closure or a new site. Confirm with the regional health authority (Interior, Fraser, Vancouver Coastal, Island or Northern Health) before you buy or build.

Source: Hospitals in BC, HealthLinkBC (Open Government Licence – British Columbia).

By place

All 319 of BC's places, each with the nearest of the 81 hospitals on the Province's list, measured by us in a straight line from the town centre (in an electoral area, its main settled place). Listed by name.

The Province's list as updated 2026-10-01, read 2026-10-06. A hospital's buildings are counted as one; day surgery and outpatient centres are left out, as in a report. A far edge of a large electoral area can be much nearer to, or farther from, a hospital than its settled place.