Health in Maidstone · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Maidstone’s health region live to 76.6 on average, 4.9 years short of the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 46% very good or excellent, against 49% in Saskatchewan. What sets Maidstone apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.2 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Maidstone grades C for health.
Saskatchewan: 49% · Shared with the rest of the North Central West health region: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Smoking is commoner around Maidstone than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 11% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Maidstone takes a trip of 51 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 5.3 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (46% as answered). Health survey ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Maidstone at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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
Maidstone 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 (46%)Better than 16% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 47% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (76.6)Better than 4% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.2 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
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 11% diabetes
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
24%
Arthritis
20%
Diabetes
11%
Obese (self-reported)
44%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
12%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
11%
Heavy drinking
17%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Saskatchewan
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 44% 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 0.2 km from the average home in Maidstone
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Maidstone’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
0.2 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.3 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
51 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
Maidstone is closer in than the provincial norm of 2.2 km in Saskatchewan, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Saskatchewan (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
Health very good or excellent
46%
Health fair or poor
12%
Mental health very good or excellent
48%
Mental health fair or poor
18%
Most days quite a bit stressful
18%
Strong sense of belonging
69%
Satisfied with life
89%
Saskatchewan
Stress touches 18% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 48%, the province 50% (Saskatchewan).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
The wider area
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
76.6
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
6th
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 6th 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 instability3.4
Economic dependency2.3
Ethno-cultural composition1.4
Situational vulnerability5.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Maidstone’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Maidstone’s region’s dot is close to 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 Maidstone’s region fits it, 76.6 years at 4.1 against the line’s 76.8. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes last; their median is 78.5 years. Judged by income, around $82,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
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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 Maidstone’s own.
Questions about health in Maidstone
What is the life expectancy in Maidstone?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Maidstone’s health region only: 79.8 years for women and 73.7 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Maidstone?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Maidstone from a hospital?
For everyday care, Maidstone’s residents are 51 km from a pharmacy and 0.3 km from a clinic on average.
How is Maidstone’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Maidstone has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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