Photo: brewbooks from near Seattle, USA · CC BY-SA 2.049% of adults around Fairhaven rate their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 81.4, women 83.4 and men 79.2 (2022/2024). Measured from where Fairhaven’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 2.3 km away, under the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Fairhaven is B+, #18 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,214 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Fairhaven
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Fairhaven than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Fairhaven at 4.2 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 5.5 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.2 km off, Fairhaven is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Fairhaven 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: #18 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,214 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.
High blood pressure for 16% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
About as many adults report obesity as across Saskatchewan: 38%, 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.
The nearest hospital is 2.3 km from the average home in Fairhaven
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Fairhaven’s own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 2.2 km of the typical town in Saskatchewan (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Fairhaven goes.
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.
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
Top of the 7 regions in Saskatchewan: the lowest figure is 70.0, 11.4 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Fairhaven’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Fairhaven’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Fairhaven belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 81.4 years, the trend 81.8. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean shorter-lived: 6 of them below it, a median of 81.3.
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Saskatchewan: 50% and 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
The region’s 48% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Saskatchewan’s 50%, with 24% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Fairhaven is 13th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,436 to 6,640 people, median 4.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Humboldt SK C− | 6,551 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Centre QC A | 6,627 | 0.8 km | 55% |
| 3 | Stipeley ON B | 6,572 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 11 | Massey Place SK B+ | 6,561 | 2.2 km | 49% |
| 12 | Hollick-Kenyon AB B+ | 6,451 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 13 | Fairhaven SK B+ | 6,536 | 2.3 km | 49% |
| 14 | Bramalea Woods ON A− | 6,521 | 2.5 km | 49% |
| 15 | Glenwood MB B+ | 6,617 | 2.8 km | 52% |
| 40 | Mont-Joli QC B+ | 6,492 | 29 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Fairhaven
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fairhaven | 2.3 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Parkridge 1.3 km | 3.7 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| South West Industrial 1.4 km | 2.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Pacific Heights 1.4 km | 3.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Meadowgreen 1.4 km | 1.0 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Blairmore Suburban Centre 1.8 km | 4.2 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Confederation Park 2.0 km | 3.4 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
The neighbours all sit in Fairhaven’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Fairhaven 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. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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 Fairhaven
How is Fairhaven’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Fairhaven’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Fairhaven?
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 17% of adults.
How far is Fairhaven from a hospital?
A clinic is 1.0 km from the average resident of Fairhaven and a pharmacy 1.2 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Fairhaven?
There is no figure for Fairhaven alone; its health region’s is 83.4 for women and 79.2 for men in 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).