Health in Langham · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
49% of adults around Langham rate their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 81.4 years on average: women 83.4, men 79.2, in 2022/2024. What sets Langham apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Langham a grade of A−.
Saskatchewan: 49% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Saskatoon health region
Chronic conditions
17%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Smoking is rarer around Langham than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6% of adults smoke every day. 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
Langham grades A− 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 35% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 52% of Canadian towns
Smokers (8.3%)Better than 96% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (81.4)Better than 62% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.4 km)Better than almost every Canadian town
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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 16% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.2%
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
16%
Arthritis
22%
Diabetes
7.2%
Obese (self-reported)
38%
Mood disorder
17%
Anxiety disorder
20%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
8.3%
Smoke every day
6%
Heavy drinking
19%
Flu shot in the past year
47%
Saskatchewan
Obesity is close to the province’s level, 38% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Langham’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Langham’s region fits it, 81.4 years at 2.7 against the line’s 81.8. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 81.3 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 Langham, a hospital is 0.4 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Langham’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
30 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
Langham is closer in than the provincial norm of 2.2 km in Saskatchewan, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Nothing in the regional columns separates Langham from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. Residents of Dalmeny live further from a hospital, at 13 km against 0.4 km in Langham.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Langham alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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. 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.
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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 Langham
How is Langham’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Langham: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Langham?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Langham from a hospital?
For everyday care, Langham’s residents are 0.5 km from a pharmacy and 30 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Langham?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.4 for women, 79.2 for men around Langham (2022/2024).
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