Health in La Loche · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
La Loche’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 11.5 years: life expectancy 70.0
Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.0 km from the average resident of La Loche, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. La Loche 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.
Deprivation alone, a score of 5.0, would give La Loche’s region about 73.7 years; it stops at 70.0. For its deprivation ↓
More households under strain
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, La Loche’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Near a hospital
Measured from where people live, La Loche is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.0 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
No Health grade is possible for La Loche
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)
1.0 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
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and La Loche’s region shows under the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 5.0 would suggest 73.7 years, but La Loche’s region stops at 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 La Loche, a hospital is 1.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of La Loche, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
1.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
92 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
0.9 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
Residents of La Loche are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Saskatchewan is 2.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
This is the shortest-lived of the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, 11.4 years behind the first at 81.4.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.8
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; La Loche’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.
Towns its size
La Loche is 3rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,073 to 3,174 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 7.2 km.
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in La Loche
What is the life expectancy in La Loche?
Statistics Canada publishes it for La Loche’s health region only: 72.8 years for women and 67.3 for men (2022/2024).
Does La Loche have a Health grade?
It can’t have one, because the health survey has no figures for Far North; that also rules out an overall grade for La Loche.
How far is La Loche from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in La Loche is 92 km from a clinic and 0.9 km from a pharmacy.
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