Child Poverty in Sask
This percentage of Saskatchewan children lived in poverty in 2023 the highest rate in Canada.
What is 27.1%?
This many people were counted as experiencing homelessness in Canada in the 2024 Point-in-Time count.
What is 60,000?
This percentage of households in Canadian provinces were food insecure in 2024.
What is 22.9%?
Indigenous adults were incarcerated at this multiple of the rate of non-Indigenous adults in several provinces.
What is 10 times higher?
This term describes the non-medical factors that influence health outcomes, such as housing and income.
What are social determinants of health?
This number of Saskatchewan children over one-quarter of all kids lived in poverty in 2023.
What is 78,000 children?
This percentage of surveyed individuals were experiencing chronic homelessness.
What is 83%?
This group had the highest food insecurity rate at 40.4%.
Who are Black Canadians?
This major factor contributes to Indigenous over-incarceration, according to a 2026 law article.
What is poverty?
This group is disproportionately represented in homelessness, poverty, and food insecurity statistics due to colonialism and systemic racism.
Who are Indigenous peoples?
This region of Saskatchewan has the highest child poverty rate at 62%.
What is Northern Saskatchewan?
This was the most common reason people reported for losing their housing.
What is unaffordable housing?
Nearly this percentage of post-secondary students in Canada experience food insecurity.
What is 29%?
This social determinant of health is strongly linked to Saskatchewan’s deep income poverty and poor long-term outcomes.
What is education?
This type of care emphasizes safety, empowerment, and understanding the impact of trauma.
What is trauma-informed care?
This province has the second-highest child poverty rate after Saskatchewan.
What is Manitoba (26.9%)?
What is unaffordable housing?
What is Medicine Hat?
Saskatchewan food banks saw this percentage increase in usage from 2024 to 2025.
What is 5%?
This age range accounts for nearly half of people who first experienced homelessness.
What is under age 25?
This type of housing model, used in Medicine Hat, prioritizes immediate access to housing without preconditions.
What is Housing First?
Saskatchewan leads the country in this poverty-related measure, meaning low-income families fall far below the poverty line.
What are poverty gaps?
People experiencing homelessness in Saskatchewan spent this much longer in hospital on average in 2024.
What is two weeks longer?
Farm Credit Canada’s Drive Away Hunger campaign donated this many meals in 2025.
What is 635 million meals?
This percentage of people who first experienced homelessness before age 18 later became chronically homeless.
What is 87%?
This is the most common barrier preventing safe discharge from hospital for people experiencing homelessness.
What is lack of safe, stable housing?