Health in La Ronge · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around La Ronge: 70.0 years, 11.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The town’s own part is the trip to care, and La Ronge is well placed: 1.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. La Ronge 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.
For a deprivation score of 5.0, the trend across regions gives 73.7 years of life; La Ronge’s region reaches only 70.0. For its deprivation ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, La Ronge sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Near a hospital
The hospital is close for almost everyone in La Ronge: 1.2 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
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
La Ronge can’t be graded for health
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
70.0
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
1.3 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
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; La Ronge’s region’s dot is under the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of La Ronge’s region’s: 70.0 years where the line expects 73.7 at 5.0. It is outlived by 8 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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 La Ronge: 1.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Ronge’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
1.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
84 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
1.6 km
residents’ average distance
2.0 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
La Ronge is near the provincial norm, 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
Questions about health in La Ronge
What is the life expectancy in La Ronge?
Women in La Ronge’s region live to 72.8 on average and men to 67.3, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
Does La Ronge have a Health grade?
No Health grade is possible for La Ronge: Far North falls outside the survey’s published figures, and the overall grade needs Health.
How far is La Ronge from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in La Ronge is 84 km from a clinic and 1.6 km from a pharmacy.
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