Health in Pinehouse · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Pinehouse’s health region live to 70.0 on average, 11.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
For Pinehouse itself, the measure is access: 94 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 100% of homes beyond 30 km. There will be no Health grade for Pinehouse, because the survey’s figures for Far North are withheld as unreliable; no overall grade can follow.
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Deprivation alone, a score of 5.0, would give Pinehouse’s region about 73.7 years; it stops at 70.0. For its deprivation ↓
A long way to hospital
For 100% of homes in Pinehouse the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 94 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 94 km from the average home in Pinehouse, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Pinehouse sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. 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
No Health grade is possible for Pinehouse
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
70.0
life expectancy, region (typical town 81.5)
94 km
to a hospital, town’s residents (typical town 3.7 km)
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.
For its deprivation
3.7 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Pinehouse’s region comes out below the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 5.0, the expected figure is 73.7 years, and Pinehouse’s region falls below with 70.0. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 8 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 77.2 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.
Getting care
From Pinehouse, a hospital is 94 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Pinehouse’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
94 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
1.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
94 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Pinehouse that is further than the 2.2 km of the typical town in Saskatchewan, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
70.0
years at birth, 2022/2024
17.6
more years expected at 65
7th
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 is the shortest-lived of the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, 11.4 years behind the first at 81.4.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.0
Economic dependency4.0
Ethno-cultural composition4.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Pinehouse’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Pinehouse
What is the life expectancy in Pinehouse?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Pinehouse’s health region only: 72.8 years for women and 67.3 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Pinehouse from a hospital?
For everyday care, Pinehouse’s residents are 94 km from a pharmacy and 1.0 km from a clinic on average.
Does Pinehouse have a Health grade?
No Health grade is possible for Pinehouse: Far North falls outside the survey’s published figures, and the overall grade needs Health.
Photo: Dreerwin · CC BY-SA 4.0