Health in Chicken 224 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Chicken 224 is 70.0 years, 11.5 less than for the typical Canadian town
For Chicken 224 itself the measure is access, and it lags: 8.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. There will be no Health grade for Chicken 224, because the survey’s figures for Far North are withheld as unreliable; no overall grade can follow.
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Set against regions as deprived (5.0), Chicken 224’s region loses years: 70.0 where the trend says 73.7. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 367 km from the average home in Chicken 224, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Chicken 224 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)
8.1 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
3.7 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Chicken 224’s dot is marked, under 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 5.0, the expected figure is 73.7 years, and Chicken 224’s 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
From Chicken 224, a hospital is 8.1 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Chicken 224, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
8.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
366 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
367 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
Chicken 224 is further out than the provincial norm of 2.2 km in Saskatchewan, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Life expectancy across the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Saskatchewan, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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.
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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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 Chicken 224
What is the life expectancy in Chicken 224?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Chicken 224’s health region only: 72.8 years for women and 67.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Chicken 224 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Chicken 224’s residents are 367 km from a pharmacy and 366 km from a clinic on average.
Does Chicken 224 have a Health grade?
No: Far North isn’t covered by the health survey, so Chicken 224 can’t be graded for health, and without Health there is no overall grade. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.