Photo: ArmedCalculator · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 49% of adults in Willowgrove’s health region
A baby born in the region can expect 81.4 years, 83.4 for a girl and 79.2 for a boy (2022/2024). For Willowgrove itself the measure is access: 3.5 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Willowgrove a grade of B+, #32 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,261 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Willowgrove
A region that smokes less
Around Willowgrove, only 6% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate lower than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Easier circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Willowgrove at 1.3 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the bottom band. The wider area ↓
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Willowgrove has 5.4 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.8 km away. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Willowgrove 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: #32 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,261 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%
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.
The nearest hospital is 3.5 km from the average home in Willowgrove
Straight-line distances from each part of Willowgrove, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Willowgrove 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.
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Willowgrove itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Willowgrove’s region shows close to the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Willowgrove’s region, at 2.7, should live about 81.8 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 81.4, near enough. 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Saskatchewan: 50% and 50%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 48% very good or excellent against 50% for Saskatchewan; stress is a daily matter for 24%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Willowgrove comes 21st of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (9,606 to 9,984 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Cambie BC A+ | 9,846 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Northeast SK B+ | 9,670 | 1.1 km | 49% |
| 3 | Coaldale AB B− | 9,644 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 19 | Acadia AB A+ | 9,950 | 3.4 km | 56% |
| 20 | Devonshire ON B | 9,852 | 3.5 km | 52% |
| 21 | Willowgrove SK B+ | 9,787 | 3.5 km | 49% |
| 22 | Charlesbourg QC A+ | 9,660 | 4.2 km | 62% |
| 23 | Glastonbury AB B | 9,745 | 4.3 km | 51% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Willowgrove
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Willowgrove | 3.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Brighton 2.0 km | 4.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| University Heights Urban Centre 2.1 km | 2.7 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Evergreen 2.4 km | 2.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| University 3.4 km | 2.1 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Greystone Heights 4.5 km | 2.8 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Lakewood 4.6 km | 4.5 km | 49% | 81.4 | B+ |
Around Willowgrove the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Willowgrove itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Willowgrove
How is Willowgrove’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Willowgrove’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Willowgrove?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures trail the typical Canadian town than beat it. Chronic conditions there average 17% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Willowgrove?
Women in Willowgrove’s region live to 83.4 on average and men to 79.2, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Willowgrove from a hospital?
Residents of Willowgrove have a clinic 1.2 km away on average and a pharmacy 0.8 km away, in straight lines.
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).