Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Lumsden’s health region
Women in the region live to 82.3 and men to 78.0, 80.2 years taken together (2022/2024). For Lumsden itself the measure is access, and it lags: 18 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Lumsden is B−.
What stands out about health in Lumsden
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Lumsden the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 18 km. Getting care ↓
Shorter lives in the region
Lumsden’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Fewer smokers
Around Lumsden, only 6.5% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Lumsden grades B− for health
Each input ranked against Canadian towns of 2,500 or more: the region’s four, the town’s distance to a hospital.
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.
From Lumsden, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Lumsden, weighted by who lives there.
From Lumsden that is further than the 2.2 km of the typical town in Saskatchewan, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
Hospitals and clinics: Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities. Pharmacies: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Straight-line distances from each dissemination area, weighted by its 2021 population.
High blood pressure for 21% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.9%
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Fewer adults report obesity than across Saskatchewan: 35%, the province 40%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 2nd 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Lumsden’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.9 years behind the trend
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Lumsden’s region is below the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 2.9, the expected figure is 81.1 years, and Lumsden’s region falls below with 80.2. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (7 of 10), with a median of 81.2.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Saskatchewan: 50% to 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
Neither ahead nor behind Saskatchewan on mental health (51% to 50%), the region has 22% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Lumsden
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lumsden | 18 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Lumsden No. 189 5.7 km | 18 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Longlaketon No. 219 17 km | 12 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Regina Beach 18 km | 0.6 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Lumsden’s; read across for the hospital trip. Regina Beach is the closest to care, 0.6 km to Lumsden’s 18 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Lumsden’s own.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Lumsden
How far is Lumsden from a hospital?
Residents of Lumsden have a clinic 22 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.6 km away, in straight lines.
How is Lumsden’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lumsden’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lumsden?
Women in Lumsden’s region live to 82.3 on average and men to 78.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Lumsden?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (13-10-0972) · Statistics Canada, life expectancy 2022/2024 (13-10-0988) · Statistics Canada, health regions 2023 (82-402-X) · Statistics Canada, Open Database of Healthcare Facilities · pharmacies © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation 2021. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).