Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Regina’s health region
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.2, with women at 82.3 and men at 78.0. Closer to home, a hospital sits 2.6 km from the average resident of Regina, about the norm of 3.7 km. Smoking is rarer than in the province: 8.6% of adults, against 13% for Saskatchewan.
What stands out about health in Regina
Smoking runs low
Smoking is rarer around Regina than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6.5% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A region where lives run shorter
Regina’s region sits 1.3 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.6 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Regina has 9.8 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
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.
No Health grade for Regina yet
What the grade will weigh: the region’s survey and life expectancy, and the town’s own distance to a hospital, each against 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%)
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
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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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 2nd.
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 Regina’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 2.6 km from the average home in Regina
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Regina’s own, not the region’s.
Regina is near the provincial norm, 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan, with the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 0.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 2.6 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.
Behind regions as deprived by 0.9 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Regina’s dot is marked, under the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and Regina’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. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 7 still live longer, with 81.2 years in the middle.
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%)
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
For 22% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Saskatchewan’s 50%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Regina
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regina | 2.6 km | 49% | 80.2 | — |
| Downtown 0.4 km | 0.4 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Heritage 1.2 km | 0.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Cathedral Village 1.3 km | 0.9 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Dewdney Place 1.8 km | 0.9 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| North Central 1.8 km | 0.7 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
| Lakeview 2.4 km | 1.5 km | 49% | 80.2 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Regina from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Regina itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Regina
Does Regina have a Health grade?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Regina’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Regina?
For the health region that includes Regina, women can expect 82.3 years and men 78.0 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Regina?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How far is Regina from a hospital?
Residents of Regina have a clinic 0.9 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.8 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).