For health, Seekaskootch 119 sits behind 95% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 46% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Saskatchewan as a whole reaches 49%. What sets Seekaskootch 119 apart within its region is distance: 32 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 100% of residents. Seekaskootch 119 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Seekaskootch 119. The Health grade for Seekaskootch 119 is D.
What stands out about health in Seekaskootch 119
Shorter lives in the region
Seekaskootch 119’s region sits 4.9 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.8 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Seekaskootch 119 live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (33 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Seekaskootch 119 is well above the typical town’s; 11% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Seekaskootch 119, a pharmacy is 45 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. 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.
Seekaskootch 119 grades D 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.
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.
How the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan compare on life expectancy
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
Among the 7 regions in Saskatchewan, from 70.0 to 81.4 years, this one is 6th.
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; Seekaskootch 119’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.
The nearest hospital is 32 km from the average home in Seekaskootch 119
Straight-line distances from each part of Seekaskootch 119, weighted by who lives there.
From Seekaskootch 119 that is further 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.
High blood pressure for 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 11%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 44% of adults against 40% for Saskatchewan.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Seekaskootch 119’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Seekaskootch 119’s region fits it, 76.6 years at 4.1 against the line’s 76.8. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes last; their median is 78.5 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $82,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Saskatchewan: 46% to 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 is no outlier: 48% say very good or excellent (Saskatchewan: 50%) and 18% live with stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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 Seekaskootch 119’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Seekaskootch 119
What is the life expectancy in Seekaskootch 119?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 79.8 for women, 73.7 for men around Seekaskootch 119 (2022/2024).
How far is Seekaskootch 119 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Seekaskootch 119’s residents are 45 km from a pharmacy and 43 km from a clinic on average.
How healthy is Seekaskootch 119?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
How is Seekaskootch 119’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Seekaskootch 119’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
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).