Photo: Daniel Paquet from Regina, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Boothill, 49% of adults call their health very good or excellent
For 2022/2024, the region’s figure is 80.2 years at birth, 82.3 for women and 78.0 for men. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.2 km from the average resident of Boothill, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Boothill grades B+ for health, #61 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,510 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Boothill
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Boothill is well below the typical town’s; 6.5% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Boothill, 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 ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Boothill has 12 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 1.1 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Boothill 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: #61 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,510 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (9.9%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
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.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Boothill’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
From Boothill, a hospital is 2.2 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Boothill’s own, not the region’s.
Against 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Boothill sits near the middle.
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.
The region lives 0.9 years less than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Boothill’s region’s dot is under the line.
Life expectancy drops as deprivation climbs across Canada’s 102 health regions (correlation −0.83); a score of 2.9 would suggest 81.1 years, but Boothill’s region stops at 80.2. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (7 of 10, 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.
50% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Saskatchewan (50%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health reads like the rest of Saskatchewan: 51% against 50%, and 22% under quite a bit of stress most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Boothill is 10th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,567 to 2,657 people, median 7.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosetown SK B+ | 2,600 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 3 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 8 | Macassa ON B | 2,584 | 1.6 km | 53% |
| 9 | Delton AB B+ | 2,657 | 1.9 km | 51% |
| 10 | Boothill SK B+ | 2,613 | 2.2 km | 49% |
| 11 | Sherwood ON B | 2,567 | 2.3 km | 53% |
| 12 | South River Heights MB B+ | 2,632 | 3.3 km | 52% |
| 40 | High Prairie AB D− | 2,607 | 41 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Boothill
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boothill | 2.2 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Al Ritchie 1.2 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Dewdney Place 2.2 km | 0.9 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Heritage 2.3 km | 0.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Arcola East 3.0 km | 5.1 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Dewdney East 3.1 km | 4.1 km | 49% | 80.2 | B |
| Downtown 3.2 km | 0.4 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Boothill’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Boothill alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Boothill
How is Boothill’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Boothill: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Boothill?
There is no figure for Boothill alone; its health region’s is 82.3 for women and 78.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Boothill?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
How far is Boothill from a hospital?
Residents of Boothill have a clinic 1.3 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.1 km away, in straight lines.
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).