Photo: Andrew Scheer · CC0More smokers around Moosomin: 20% of adults, where the typical Canadian town has 12%
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Saskatchewan, 49% against 49%. For Moosomin itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 1.1 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Moosomin a grade of C−, #91 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,378 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Moosomin
Shorter lives in the region
Moosomin’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 ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
For a deprivation score of 3.0, the trend across regions gives 80.8 years of life; Moosomin’s region reaches only 78.6. For its deprivation ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Moosomin takes a trip of 27 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 32% of adults, diabetes for 10%. 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.
Moosomin 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.
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. Its place: #91 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,378 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, from 70.0 to 81.4 years, this one is 4th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Moosomin’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Behind regions as deprived by 2.2 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Moosomin’s dot is marked, under the line.
The trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a region scored 3.0 about 80.8 years of life. Moosomin’s region falls short of it, at 78.6. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes last; their median is 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.
From Moosomin, a hospital is 1.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Moosomin’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Moosomin is on the near side.
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.
32% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% diabetes
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 47% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 23% to 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Self-rated health much as in Saskatchewan: 48% 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
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Moosomin is 5th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,866 to 2,943 people, median 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fairview AB C− | 2,918 | 0.6 km | 48% |
| 2 | Black Diamond AB A+ | 2,910 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 4 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 5 | Moosomin SK C− | 2,906 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 6 | Wawa ON C− | 2,943 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 7 | Athabasca AB C− | 2,887 | 1.2 km | 48% |
| 40 | Parry Sound, Unorganized, Centre Part ON D | 2,877 | 44 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Moosomin alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Moosomin
What is the life expectancy in Moosomin?
There is no figure for Moosomin alone; its health region’s is 80.8 for women and 76.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Moosomin’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Moosomin’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Moosomin?
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 20%.
How far is Moosomin from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Moosomin live: 35 km to a clinic, 27 km to a pharmacy.
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).