Health in Indian Head · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Indian Head’s health region counts 20% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Saskatchewan as a whole is at 49%. Measured from where Indian Head’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.7 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. Indian Head grades C− for health.
Life expectancy in the region around Indian Head runs 2.9 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.0 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Indian Head’s region loses years: 78.6 where the trend says 80.8. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 28 km from the average home in Indian Head, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 32% report high blood pressure and 10% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Indian Head 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.
Very good or excellent health (49%)Better than 32% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 14% of Canadian towns
Smokers (20%)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.6)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.7 km)Better than 97% of Canadian towns
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.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.0
more years expected at 65
4th
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
Life expectancy in Saskatchewan runs from 70.0 to 81.4; this region sits 4th of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.6
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.7
Situational vulnerability3.2
The index is context and never graded: it describes Indian Head’s 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.
For its deprivation
2.2 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Indian Head’s region, below the line, stands for every town in it.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Where residents average 3.0 on the index, regions tend to reach 80.8 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Indian Head belongs to trails at 78.6. It trails all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 80.3.
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 Indian Head, a hospital is 0.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Indian Head’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
28 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
28 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
Compared with 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Indian Head is on the near side.
High blood pressure for 32% of adults in the region, diabetes for 10%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
32%
Arthritis
25%
Diabetes
10%
Obese (self-reported)
47%
Mood disorder
10%
Anxiety disorder
13%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
20%
Smoke every day
17%
Heavy drinking
23%
Flu shot in the past year
39%
Saskatchewan
At 47%, self-reported obesity is above Saskatchewan’s 40%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% against 20%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Health survey
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Saskatchewan (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
Health very good or excellent
48%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
77%
Satisfied with life
88%
Saskatchewan
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Saskatchewan (54% against 50%), while 18% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Indian Head itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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.
Questions about health in Indian Head
What is the life expectancy in Indian Head?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 80.8 for women, 76.5 for men around Indian Head (2022/2024).
How is Indian Head’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Indian Head has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Indian Head?
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 far is Indian Head from a hospital?
For everyday care, Indian Head’s residents are 28 km from a pharmacy and 28 km from a clinic on average.
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