Health in Lanigan · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
More smokers around Lanigan: 20% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 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 Lanigan’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 0.7 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Lanigan is C−.
Lanigan’s region sits 2.9 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Behind regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Lanigan’s region loses years: 78.6 where the trend says 80.8. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Lanigan takes a trip of 38 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
High blood pressure (32%) and diabetes (10%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Lanigan 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
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
This region is 4th longest-lived of 7 in Saskatchewan, on a scale from 70.0 to 81.4 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.4
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition2.1
Situational vulnerability2.6
This is the one part of the block measured for Lanigan itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Behind regions as deprived by 2.2 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Lanigan’s lies below the line.
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 3.0 would suggest 80.8 years, but Lanigan’s region stops at 78.6. It sits at the foot of the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.3 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
From Lanigan, a hospital is 0.7 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lanigan, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.7 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
35 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
38 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
From Lanigan that is nearer than the 2.2 km of the typical town in Saskatchewan, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
In the region, high blood pressure (32%) and diabetes (10%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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
About as many rate their health highly here as in Saskatchewan: 48% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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
Mental health beats Saskatchewan as well: 54% very good or excellent to 50%, with 18% facing stressful days.
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. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
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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 Lanigan’s own.
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Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
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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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Lanigan
What is the life expectancy in Lanigan?
Women in Lanigan’s region live to 80.8 on average and men to 76.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Lanigan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lanigan’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Lanigan?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
How far is Lanigan from a hospital?
Residents of Lanigan have a clinic 35 km away on average and a pharmacy 38 km away, in straight lines.
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