Photo: Tanbir M-05 · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Westmount, 49% of adults call 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, and Westmount is well placed: 0.8 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Westmount grades A− for health, #3 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,099 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Westmount
Fewer smokers
Smoking is rarer around Westmount than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 6% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A hospital close by
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Westmount; from its centre of population the trip is 0.7 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Westmount sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
With 11 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 0.7 km off, Westmount 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.
Westmount 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: #3 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,099 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%)
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
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 Westmount: 0.8 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Westmount’s own, not the region’s.
From Westmount that is nearer than the 2.2 km of the typical town in Saskatchewan, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town.
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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 7 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Westmount’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Westmount’s region comes out on the trend.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Westmount belongs to lives about as long as its score of 2.7 predicts: 81.4 years, the trend 81.8. 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.
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
On mental health the region tracks Saskatchewan, 48% very good or excellent to 50%; 24% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Westmount is 1st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,838 to 2,909 people, median 5.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westmount SK A− | 2,872 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 2 | McKernan AB B+ | 2,880 | 0.9 km | 51% |
| 3 | Minnedosa MB B− | 2,859 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints QC B | 2,841 | 76 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Westmount
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Westmount | 0.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Pleasant Hill 0.8 km | 0.4 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Caswell Hill 1.0 km | 1.2 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Mount Royal 1.1 km | 1.3 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Meadowgreen 1.7 km | 1.0 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
| Mayfair 1.9 km | 1.9 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Central Business District 2.0 km | 0.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | A− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Westmount’s regional figures.
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 Westmount’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Westmount
How is Westmount’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Westmount: 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 Westmount?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 17%.
How far is Westmount from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Westmount is 0.6 km from a clinic and 0.7 km from a pharmacy.
What is the life expectancy in Westmount?
There is no figure for Westmount 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).