Health in Maple Creek · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Maple Creek: 79.9 years, 1.6 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 49% for Saskatchewan. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Maple Creek is well placed: 0.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Maple Creek grades B+ for health.
Picking up a prescription in Maple Creek takes a trip of 84 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Maple Creek 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.
Very good or excellent health (54%)Better than 62% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (17%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (79.9)Better than 39% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.8 km)Better than 96% 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.
Getting care
From Maple Creek, a hospital is 0.8 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Maple Creek, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.8 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
0.8 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
84 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
Maple Creek is closer in than the provincial norm of 2.2 km in Saskatchewan, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km.
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Maple Creek’s region is near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.1 would be expected to reach 80.5 years, and Maple Creek’s region is close, at 79.9. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 80.9 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.
Conditions and habits
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
8.2%
Obese (self-reported)
35%
Mood disorder
13%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
20%
Flu shot in the past year
42%
Saskatchewan
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.
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.
79.9
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.1
more years expected at 65
3rd
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
Life expectancy in Saskatchewan runs from 70.0 to 81.4; this region sits 3rd of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency3.9
Ethno-cultural composition1.9
Situational vulnerability3.4
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Maple Creek’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.
Health survey
Self-rated health beats Saskatchewan: 53% very good or excellent, against 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
53%
Health fair or poor
14%
Mental health very good or excellent
52%
Mental health fair or poor
13%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
77%
Satisfied with life
87%
Saskatchewan
Stress touches 20% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 52%, the province 50% (Saskatchewan).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Maple Creek
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Only the hospital column is local here: Maple Creek and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Residents of Maple Creek No. 111 live further from a hospital, at 15 km against 0.8 km in Maple Creek.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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 Maple Creek’s own.
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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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.
Questions about health in Maple Creek
How is Maple Creek’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Maple Creek’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Maple Creek?
For the health region that includes Maple Creek, women can expect 82.5 years and men 77.5 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Maple Creek?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Maple Creek from a hospital?
Residents of Maple Creek have a clinic 0.8 km away on average and a pharmacy 84 km away, in straight lines.
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