Photo: Louis White · CC BY-SA 2.049% of adults around Saskatoon rate their health very good or excellent
Women in the region live to 83.4 and men to 79.2, 81.4 years taken together (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Saskatoon live 3.1 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. At 8.3%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 13% for Saskatchewan.
What stands out about health in Saskatoon
Smoking runs low
The age-standardised smoking rate around Saskatoon is well below the typical town’s; 6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
With 7.3 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.9 km off, Saskatoon is well served for prescriptions. 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.
Health in Saskatoon: the grade is still to come
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
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
On weight the region is ordinary for Saskatchewan: 38% report obesity, 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.
Getting to hospital from Saskatoon: 3.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Saskatoon, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Saskatoon travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Saskatchewan is 2.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.3 km, while the average resident is 3.1 km away.
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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Saskatoon’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 2.7 about 81.8 years; Saskatoon’s region’s 81.4 is within a year of it. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and it still beats 6, with 81.3 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Saskatoon’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
Mental health reads like the rest of Saskatchewan: 48% against 50%, and 24% 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.
Health in the places around Saskatoon
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saskatoon | 3.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | — |
| Grosvenor Park 0.4 km | 1.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Central Business District 1.1 km | 0.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| City Park 1.4 km | 0.4 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Haultain 1.5 km | 1.9 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Buena Vista 2.2 km | 1.7 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Holliston 2.6 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
Every place around Saskatoon shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Saskatoon itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Saskatoon
Does Saskatoon have a Health grade?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Saskatoon’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Saskatoon?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Saskatoon from a hospital?
For everyday care, Saskatoon’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy and 1.6 km from a clinic on average.
What is the life expectancy in Saskatoon?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Saskatoon’s health region only: 83.4 years for women and 79.2 for men (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).