Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Sakaw’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.2, women 83.6 and men 78.8 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Sakaw is well placed: 2.2 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Sakaw a grade of B+, #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Sakaw
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Sakaw’s neighbourhoods average 4.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Sakaw grades B+ 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: #248 of 474 in Alberta and #1,526 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.
How the 5 health regions in Alberta compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Alberta, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Alberta, where life expectancy runs from 78.3 to 83.0 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Sakaw’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Sakaw’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Sakaw belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.8 predicts: 81.2 years, the trend 81.4. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 4 above, 4 below, a median of 81.2 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.
High blood pressure for 19% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.4%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Obesity tracks the province: 33% of adults here, 32% across Alberta.
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.
From Sakaw, a hospital is 2.2 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sakaw’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Sakaw travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Alberta is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Alberta, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Alberta: 52% and 54%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health is no outlier: 51% say very good or excellent (Alberta: 52%) and 24% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Sakaw is 13th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,392 to 3,511 people, median 4.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 3 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 11 | Royal Gardens AB B+ | 3,392 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 12 | West Jasper Place AB B+ | 3,427 | 2.1 km | 51% |
| 13 | Sakaw AB B+ | 3,453 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 14 | Daly Grove AB B+ | 3,486 | 2.3 km | 51% |
| 15 | Riverdale East ON B | 3,416 | 2.5 km | 53% |
| 40 | Lewisporte NL D | 3,405 | 45 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Sakaw
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sakaw | 2.2 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Meyokumin 0.9 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Anthony Henday South East 1.1 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Ekota 1.4 km | 1.6 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Pollard Meadows 1.4 km | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.2 | B+ |
| Crawford Plains 1.6 km | 2.7 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
| Charlesworth 1.7 km | 3.9 km | 51% | 81.2 | B |
Around Sakaw the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Sakaw itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Sakaw
How is Sakaw’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Sakaw’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Sakaw from a hospital?
Residents of Sakaw have a pharmacy 1.8 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Sakaw?
Women in Sakaw’s region live to 83.6 on average and men to 78.8, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Sakaw?
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 18% of adults.
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).