Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Smoking runs high around Estevan: 20% of adults, the typical Canadian town 12%
In the health survey, 49% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Saskatchewan’s 49%. For Estevan itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.9 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Estevan a grade of C−, #94 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,403 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Estevan
A region where lives run shorter
Born around Estevan, a child can expect 2.9 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.0 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts
At 78.6 years, Estevan’s region trails the 80.8 that regions scoring 3.0 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 32% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Estevan grades C− 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: #94 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,403 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.
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
Among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, from 70.0 to 81.4 years, this one is 4th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Estevan’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation predicts more: the region falls 2.2 years short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Estevan’s dot is marked, under the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Estevan’s region’s: 78.6 years where the line expects 80.8 at 3.0. Among the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, every one does better; they centre on 80.3 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.
32% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
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 higher than in the province, at 47% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 23% to 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 1.9 km from the average home in Estevan
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Estevan’s own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Estevan is ordinary: 2.2 km is the typical figure in Saskatchewan, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Saskatchewan: 48% to 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
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 54% rate it very good or excellent, against 50% in Saskatchewan, and 18% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Estevan is 17th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,205 to 11,599 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Milton-Parc QC A | 11,369 | 0.2 km | 54% |
| 2 | Cabbagetown-South St.James Town ON A | 11,205 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | New Toronto ON A | 11,502 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 15 | William Whyte MB B+ | 11,432 | 1.7 km | 52% |
| 16 | Selkirk MB C | 11,570 | 1.9 km | 50% |
| 17 | Estevan SK C− | 11,391 | 1.9 km | 49% |
| 18 | Fort Richmond MB B+ | 11,563 | 1.9 km | 52% |
| 19 | Pelmo Park-Humberlea ON A | 11,396 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 40 | Farnham QC A− | 11,315 | 20 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Estevan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Estevan | 1.9 km | 49% | 78.6 | C− |
| Estevan No. 5 4.5 km | 5.9 km | 49% | 78.6 | C− |
One health region covers Estevan and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Estevan No. 5 live further from a hospital, at 5.9 km against 1.9 km in Estevan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Estevan shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
Questions about health in Estevan
What is the life expectancy in Estevan?
There is no figure for Estevan alone; its health region’s is 80.8 for women and 76.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Estevan?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How is Estevan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Estevan’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Estevan from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Estevan is 1.9 km from a clinic and 1.1 km from a pharmacy.
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).