Health in Kipling · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
20% of adults smoke in the health region around Kipling, against 12% for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Saskatchewan as a whole is at 49%. For Kipling itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 0.6 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Kipling a grade of C−.
Saskatchewan: 49% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the South East health region
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Life expectancy in the region around Kipling 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 ↓
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Kipling’s region loses years: 78.6 where the trend says 80.8. 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 ↓
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
Kipling 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 (0.6 km)Better than 98% 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
How the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan compare on life expectancy
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.
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 instability4.0
Economic dependency3.1
Ethno-cultural composition3.0
Situational vulnerability2.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Kipling’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 2.2 years behind the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Kipling’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Kipling’s region, at 3.0, should live about 80.8 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 78.6. Each of the 10 regions scored most like it does better, with a median of 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (32%) and diabetes (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.
Getting care
From Kipling, a hospital is 0.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Kipling, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.6 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.5 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
1.0 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, Kipling is on the near side.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Saskatchewan: 48% and 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Saskatchewan, 54% very good or excellent to 50%; 18% describe most days as quite a bit 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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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Kipling’s own.
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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 Kipling
What is the life expectancy in Kipling?
There is no figure for Kipling alone; its health region’s is 80.8 for women and 76.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Kipling’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Kipling’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Kipling?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How far is Kipling from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Kipling is 0.5 km from a clinic and 0.5 km from a pharmacy.
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