Photo: Stephen Glauser from Calgary, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Brighton’s health region
People in the region live to 81.4 on average: 83.4 for women and 79.2 for men in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Brighton live 4.5 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. Health gives Brighton a grade of B+, #40 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,301 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Brighton
A region that smokes less
The age-standardised smoking rate around Brighton is well below the typical town’s; 6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs low
With a situational-vulnerability score of 1.6 out of 5, Brighton sits in the index’s least pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
A typical home in Brighton has 7.0 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.
Brighton 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: #40 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,301 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 (16%) and diabetes (7.2%)
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 is close to the province’s level, 38% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting to hospital from Brighton: 4.5 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Brighton, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Brighton 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
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Saskatchewan, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, 11.4 years ahead of the last at 70.0.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Brighton’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Brighton’s, follows the trend.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Brighton’s region is a typical case: 81.4 years at a score of 2.7, where the trend says 81.8. Set beside its 10 nearest neighbours on the index, it outlives the majority, 6 of 10; their median is 81.3 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.
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
Neither ahead nor behind Saskatchewan on mental health (48% to 50%), the region has 24% of adults stressed most days.
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: Brighton comes 26th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (7,113 to 7,364 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Currie Barracks AB A+ | 7,342 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 2 | Coronation Park SK B+ | 7,307 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 3 | Raleigh ON B | 7,113 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 24 | Kincora AB A+ | 7,290 | 4.0 km | 56% |
| 25 | Saint-Paul QC A− | 7,208 | 4.2 km | 56% |
| 26 | Brighton SK B+ | 7,238 | 4.5 km | 49% |
| 27 | Cavanagh AB B | 7,300 | 4.5 km | 51% |
| 28 | Twin Lakes SK B | 7,286 | 4.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Trent Lakes ON C− | 7,357 | 30 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Brighton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton | 4.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| University Heights Urban Centre 1.5 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Willowgrove 2.0 km | 3.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Lakewood 2.6 km | 4.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Greystone Heights 2.8 km | 2.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Hillcrest Management Area 3.0 km | 6.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| University 3.0 km | 2.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
Every place around Brighton shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Brighton shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
Questions about health in Brighton
How is Brighton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Brighton: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Brighton?
Taken together the region leans less healthy than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 17%.
How far is Brighton from a hospital?
A clinic is 2.3 km from the average resident of Brighton and a pharmacy 0.8 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Brighton?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 83.4 for women, 79.2 for men around Brighton (2022/2024).
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).