Health in Buffalo Narrows · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Buffalo Narrows’ health region live to 70.0 on average, 11.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
What sets Buffalo Narrows apart within its region is distance: 92 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. Buffalo Narrows can’t get a Health grade: Statistics Canada suppresses the survey’s estimates for Far North as too unreliable, and without Health there is no overall grade either.
For a deprivation score of 5.0, the trend across regions gives 73.7 years of life; Buffalo Narrows’ region reaches only 70.0. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Buffalo Narrows’ own health question: 100% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 92 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Buffalo Narrows takes a trip of 91 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Buffalo Narrows sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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
Buffalo Narrows can’t be graded for health
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against Canadian towns.
70.0
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
92 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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
The region lives 3.7 years less than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Buffalo Narrows’ region shows under the trend.
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 5.0, the expected figure is 73.7 years, and Buffalo Narrows’ region falls below with 70.0. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 8 still live longer, with 77.2 years in the middle.
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
Getting to hospital from Buffalo Narrows: 92 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Buffalo Narrows’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
92 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.7 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
91 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Residents of Buffalo Narrows 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.
How the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
70.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
17.6
more years expected at 65
7th
longest of 7 regions in Saskatchewan
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Saskatoon81.4
Regina80.2
South West79.9
South East78.6
North Central East77.0
North Central West76.6
Far North70.0
Last of the 7 regions in Saskatchewan: the highest figure is 81.4, 11.4 years above the lowest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.5
Economic dependency2.1
Ethno-cultural composition2.6
Situational vulnerability5.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Buffalo Narrows’ 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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
Questions about health in Buffalo Narrows
What is the life expectancy in Buffalo Narrows?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Buffalo Narrows’ health region only: 72.8 years for women and 67.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Buffalo Narrows from a hospital?
For everyday care, Buffalo Narrows’ residents are 91 km from a pharmacy and 0.7 km from a clinic on average.
Does Buffalo Narrows have a Health grade?
No Health grade is possible for Buffalo Narrows: Far North falls outside the survey’s published figures, and the overall grade needs Health.
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