Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Lives run shorter around Swift Current: 79.9 years, 1.6 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 54%, ahead of the 49% for Saskatchewan. Closer to home, a hospital sits 3.1 km from the average resident of Swift Current, about the norm of 3.7 km. Health gives Swift Current a grade of B, #75 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,812 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Swift Current 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: #75 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #1,812 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.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which falls just short of the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Swift Current’s dot is marked, close to the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) gives a score of 3.1 about 80.5 years; Swift Current’s region’s 79.9 is within a year of it. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 7 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 80.9 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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.2% diabetes
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 lower than in the province, at 35% 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.
The nearest hospital is 3.1 km from the average home in Swift Current
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Swift Current’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Swift Current here: the typical town in Saskatchewan is 2.2 km from a hospital and 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
Regional life expectancy in Saskatchewan, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Of the 7 health regions in Saskatchewan, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 70.0 and a high of 81.4.
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 Swift Current’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.
More people rate their health highly here than in Saskatchewan: 53% 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 wellbeing sits at the provincial level, 52% very good or excellent against 50% for Saskatchewan; stress is a daily matter for 20%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Swift Current is 23rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,647 to 18,670 people, median 2.8 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Downtown Yonge East ON A | 18,251 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | Kensington-Chinatown ON A | 18,597 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 3 | Desmarchais-Crawford QC A | 18,505 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 21 | Sainte-Catherine QC A | 17,782 | 2.8 km | 55% |
| 22 | Central Saanich BC A+ | 18,184 | 3.0 km | 55% |
| 23 | Swift Current SK B | 18,154 | 3.1 km | 54% |
| 24 | Cold Lake AB C− | 17,798 | 3.5 km | 48% |
| 25 | Edmundston NB C+ | 18,174 | 3.7 km | 48% |
| 40 | Fallingbrook ON A | 17,836 | 13 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Swift Current
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Swift Current | 3.1 km | 54% | 79.9 | B |
| Swift Current No. 137 8.6 km | 9.8 km | 54% | 79.9 | B− |
Only the hospital column is local here: Swift Current and its neighbours share one health region’s survey. Swift Current No. 137 is the furthest from care, 9.8 km to Swift Current’s 3.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Swift Current itself is the trip to care.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Swift Current
How is Swift Current’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Swift Current: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Swift Current?
Women in Swift Current’s region live to 82.5 on average and men to 77.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Swift Current?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 17% of adults.
How far is Swift Current from a hospital?
Residents of Swift Current have a clinic 1.6 km away on average and a pharmacy 1.2 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).