Photo: Tanbir M-05 · CC BY-SA 4.049% of adults around Mount Royal rate their health very good or excellent
Lives in the region last 81.4 years on average (2022/2024): 83.4 for women, 79.2 for men. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Mount Royal is well placed: 1.3 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Mount Royal a grade of A−, #8 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,151 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mount Royal
A region that smokes less
Around Mount Royal, only 6% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care on the doorstep
Measured from where people live, Mount Royal is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.3 km away. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.4 out of 5, Mount Royal sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
The average resident of Mount Royal can reach 9.6 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.5 km off. 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.
Mount Royal grades A− 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: #8 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,151 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.
16% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.2% diabetes
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
At 38%, self-reported obesity is near Saskatchewan’s 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 1.3 km from the average home in Mount Royal
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Mount Royal’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Mount Royal 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.
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
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
No region of the 7 in Saskatchewan lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 70.0, a gap of 11.4 years.
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 Mount Royal’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
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Mount Royal’s region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Mount Royal belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 81.4 years, the trend 81.8. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, shorter lives win out: 6 of the 10, around a median of 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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Asked about their mental health, 48% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Saskatchewan it was 50%, and 24% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Mount Royal is 8th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 5,202 to 5,386 people, median 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Billings Bridge - Heron Park ON A+ | 5,370 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 3 | Waverley Heights MB B+ | 5,252 | 1.1 km | 52% |
| 6 | Uplands SK B+ | 5,273 | 1.2 km | 49% |
| 7 | Westlock AB C− | 5,363 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 8 | Mount Royal SK A− | 5,292 | 1.3 km | 49% |
| 9 | Belvedere AB B+ | 5,337 | 1.7 km | 51% |
| 10 | Normand Park MB B+ | 5,299 | 1.8 km | 52% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mount Royal
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mount Royal | 1.3 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Westmount 1.1 km | 0.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Westview 1.3 km | 2.4 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Caswell Hill 1.4 km | 1.2 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Massey Place 1.5 km | 2.2 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Pleasant Hill 1.5 km | 0.4 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Meadowgreen 1.7 km | 1.0 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
Mount Royal and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Mount Royal’s own.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Mount Royal
How healthy is Mount Royal?
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 17%.
How is Mount Royal’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Mount Royal: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Mount Royal from a hospital?
A clinic is 0.9 km from the average resident of Mount Royal and a pharmacy 0.5 km, as the crow flies.
What is the life expectancy in Mount Royal?
For the health region that includes Mount Royal, women can expect 83.4 years and men 79.2 (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).