Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Balgonie’s health region
Women in the region live to 82.3 and men to 78.0, 80.2 years taken together (2022/2024). For Balgonie itself the measure is access, and it lags: 24 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Balgonie is B−.
What stands out about health in Balgonie
Far from a hospital
Residents of Balgonie live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (24 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Life expectancy in the region around Balgonie runs 1.3 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.6 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Balgonie is well below the typical town’s; 6.5% of adults are daily smokers. 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.
Balgonie 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Balgonie: 24 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Balgonie’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Balgonie travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Saskatchewan is 2.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
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
Obesity runs lower than in the province, at 35% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan, 2nd place goes to this one, between a low of 70.0 and a high of 81.4.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Balgonie’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.9 years behind the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Balgonie’s region comes out below the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Balgonie’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 80.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Saskatchewan: 50% and 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
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Saskatchewan (51% against 50%), while 22% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Balgonie
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balgonie | 24 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| White City 8.6 km | 17 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Edenwold No. 158 9.4 km | 17 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Pilot Butte 10 km | 14 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| South Qu'Appelle No. 157 14 km | 28 km | 49% | 78.6 | D− |
| Lajord No. 128 19 km | 31 km | 49% | 78.6 | D− |
Not every neighbour shares the region: South Qu'Appelle No. 157’s life expectancy is 78.6, this region’s 80.2.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Balgonie alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Balgonie
How far is Balgonie from a hospital?
A clinic is 19 km from the average resident of Balgonie and a pharmacy 0.5 km, as the crow flies.
How is Balgonie’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Balgonie’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Balgonie?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Balgonie’s health region only: 82.3 years for women and 78.0 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Balgonie?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).