Health in Creighton · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Creighton: 70.0 years, 11.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Creighton is well placed: 2.5 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Creighton 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.
Set against regions as deprived (5.0), Creighton’s region loses years: 70.0 where the trend says 73.7. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 212 km from the average home in Creighton, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.6 out of 5, Creighton sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Creighton 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)
2.5 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
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Creighton’s region is below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 5.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 73.7 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Creighton belongs to trails at 70.0. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (8 of 10, median 77.2 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Creighton: 2.5 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Creighton’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.1 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
212 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
Creighton is near the provincial norm, 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Flin Flon (Part) falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 68.5 against 70.0 here.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Creighton
What is the life expectancy in Creighton?
For the health region that includes Creighton, women can expect 72.8 years and men 67.3 (2022/2024).
Does Creighton have a Health grade?
No: Far North isn’t covered by the health survey, so Creighton can’t be graded for health, and without Health there is no overall grade.
How far is Creighton from a hospital?
For everyday care, Creighton’s residents are 212 km from a pharmacy and 1.1 km from a clinic on average.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0