Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0Yorkton’s health region counts 20% of adults who smoke, above the typical Canadian town’s 12%
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 49%; Saskatchewan as a whole is at 49%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 1.8 km from the average resident of Yorkton, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Yorkton is C−, #93 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,401 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Yorkton
Life expectancy below the norm
Yorkton’s region sits 2.9 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.0 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Life expectancy under the deprivation trend
Set against regions as deprived (3.0), Yorkton’s region loses years: 78.6 where the trend says 80.8. For its deprivation ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 32% of adults, diabetes for 10%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Yorkton grades C− 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: #93 of 102 in Saskatchewan and #2,401 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.
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
This region is 4th longest-lived of 7 in Saskatchewan, on a scale from 70.0 to 81.4 years.
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; Yorkton’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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 2.2 years behind the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Yorkton’s lies below the line.
Deprivation accounts for much of the spread between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), but not for all of Yorkton’s region’s: 78.6 years where the line expects 80.8 at 3.0. It sits at the foot of the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 80.3 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.
32% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 10% 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
At 47%, self-reported obesity is above Saskatchewan’s 40%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (23% against 20%).
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 Yorkton: 1.8 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Yorkton, weighted by who lives there.
For distance to care Yorkton is ordinary: 2.2 km is the typical figure in Saskatchewan, 3.7 km for 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.
48% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Saskatchewan (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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Saskatchewan (54% against 50%), while 18% call most days stressful.
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: Yorkton comes 16th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (17,073 to 18,055 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Petite-Côte QC A | 17,196 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 14 | Willowdale West ON A | 17,210 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 15 | East Burnaby BC A | 17,233 | 1.7 km | 48% |
| 16 | Yorkton SK C− | 17,543 | 1.8 km | 49% |
| 17 | Centre ON A− | 17,851 | 1.9 km | 49% |
| 18 | Mahogany AB A+ | 17,818 | 2.1 km | 56% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Yorkton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yorkton | 1.8 km | 49% | 78.6 | C− |
| Orkney No. 244 13 km | 9.5 km | 49% | 78.6 | D |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Yorkton’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Orkney No. 244 live further from a hospital, at 9.5 km against 1.8 km in Yorkton.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Yorkton’s own.
Questions about health in Yorkton
How is Yorkton’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Yorkton: 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 Yorkton?
Women in Yorkton’s region live to 80.8 on average and men to 76.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Yorkton?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How far is Yorkton from a hospital?
In a straight line from where people in Yorkton live: 1.0 km to a clinic, 1.9 km to a pharmacy.
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).