Torch River No. 488 scores below 98% of Canadian towns for health
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 47%, behind the 49% for Saskatchewan. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Torch River No. 488’s is long: 27 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Torch River No. 488 a grade of D−.
What stands out about health in Torch River No. 488
A region where lives run shorter
Torch River No. 488’s region sits 4.5 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 19.8 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Torch River No. 488 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 15% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
For 28% of homes in Torch River No. 488 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 19 km. Getting care ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 25% report high blood pressure and 17% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Torch River No. 488 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.
Life expectancy across the 7 health 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
The region comes 5th of 7 in Saskatchewan, where life expectancy runs from 70.0 to 81.4 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Torch River No. 488’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 25% of adults in the region, diabetes for 17%
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
More adults report obesity than across Saskatchewan: 44%, 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 27 km from the average home in Torch River No. 488
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Torch River No. 488’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 2.2 km for the typical town in Saskatchewan and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Torch River No. 488 is on the far side.
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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Torch River No. 488’s region is near the line.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Torch River No. 488 belongs to lives about as long as its score of 4.1 predicts: 77.0 years, the trend 77.0. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 6 of them above it, a median of 78.7.
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.
46% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in Saskatchewan (50%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
The region’s 50% in very good or excellent mental health is within reach of Saskatchewan’s 50%, with 22% reporting stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Torch River No. 488
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Torch River No. 488 | 27 km | 47% | 77.0 | D− |
| Nipawin 19 km | 0.9 km | 47% | 77.0 | C− |
Same region, same survey: Torch River No. 488’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Nipawin live nearer a hospital, at 0.9 km against 27 km in Torch River No. 488.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Torch River No. 488 itself is the trip to care.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
Questions about health in Torch River No. 488
What is the life expectancy in Torch River No. 488?
For the health region that includes Torch River No. 488, women can expect 79.6 years and men 74.5 (2022/2024).
How far is Torch River No. 488 from a hospital?
Residents of Torch River No. 488 have a clinic 36 km away on average and a pharmacy 75 km away, in straight lines.
How is Torch River No. 488’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Torch River No. 488’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Torch River No. 488?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 21%.
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).