Photo: Masalai at en.wikipedia · Public domain49% of adults around Pilot Butte rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 82.3 and men to 78.0, 80.2 years taken together (2022/2024). What sets Pilot Butte apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 14 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Pilot Butte grades B− for health, #79 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,955 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Pilot Butte
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Pilot Butte the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 13 km. Getting care ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Pilot Butte, a child can expect 1.3 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.6 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs low
Smoking is rarer around Pilot Butte than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.5% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Pilot Butte 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. Its place: #79 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,955 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.
21% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.9% 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
Self-reported obesity, 35%, trails Saskatchewan (40%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 14 km from the average home in Pilot Butte
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pilot Butte’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Pilot Butte travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Saskatchewan is 2.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km.
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.
How the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Life expectancy in Saskatchewan runs from 70.0 to 81.4; this region sits 2nd of the 7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Pilot Butte’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.9 years of life
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Pilot Butte’s lies below the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Pilot Butte’s region, at 2.9, should live about 81.1 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), but it reaches only 80.2. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.2 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.
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
Stress touches 22% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 50% (Saskatchewan).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Pilot Butte comes 31st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,201 to 3,307 people, median 3.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | St. Clair ON B+ | 3,201 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 2 | Miller AB B+ | 3,294 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Marathon ON C | 3,223 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 29 | Adstock QC A− | 3,203 | 12 km | 59% |
| 30 | North Cypress-Langford MB C | 3,234 | 13 km | 51% |
| 31 | Pilot Butte SK B− | 3,255 | 14 km | 49% |
| 32 | Enderby BC B | 3,292 | 14 km | 52% |
| 33 | Annapolis County, Subdivision D NS D | 3,273 | 19 km | 44% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 3,268 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Pilot Butte
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pilot Butte | 14 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Edenwold No. 158 4.2 km | 17 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| White City 6.3 km | 17 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
| Dewdney East 9.3 km | 4.1 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Arcola East 9.7 km | 5.1 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Sherwood No. 159 9.8 km | 4.9 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Balgonie 10 km | 24 km | 49% | 80.2 | B− |
The neighbours all sit in Pilot Butte’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Balgonie live further from a hospital, at 24 km against 14 km in Pilot Butte.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Pilot Butte’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Pilot Butte
How far is Pilot Butte from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Pilot Butte is 9.3 km from a clinic and 1.2 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Pilot Butte?
There is no figure for Pilot Butte alone; its health region’s is 82.3 for women and 78.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Pilot Butte?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Pilot Butte’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Pilot Butte’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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).