Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Around Altona, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.7 years (82.9 for women, 78.7 for men, 2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is just 0.6 km from the average resident of Altona, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Altona grades B for health, #127 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,878 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Altona
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Altona’s region reaches 80.7. For its deprivation ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Altona, a pharmacy is 27 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Near a hospital
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Altona; from its centre of population the trip is 0.7 km. 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.
Altona 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: #127 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,878 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.4 years ahead of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Altona’s region comes out above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.7, the expected figure is 78.3 years, and Altona’s region does better with 80.7. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 78.2 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.
From Altona, a hospital is 0.6 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Altona, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Altona is on the near side. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
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 40% of adults against 36% for Manitoba.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Manitoba, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Manitoba, 12.2 years ahead of the last at 68.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Altona’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 52%
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 looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Altona is 3rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,908 to 5,086 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Westdale South ON B+ | 4,931 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Westmount AB B+ | 4,961 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 3 | Altona MB B | 4,989 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 4 | Meinzinger Park-Lakeside ON A | 5,007 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 5 | Central Business District SK A− | 4,987 | 0.8 km | 49% |
| 40 | Electoral Area F, Cariboo BC C− | 5,016 | 33 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Altona
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Altona | 0.6 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
| Rhineland 12 km | 11 km | 51% | 80.7 | B− |
Same region, same survey: Altona’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Residents of Rhineland live further from a hospital, at 11 km against 0.6 km in Altona.
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.
- 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.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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 Altona’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
Questions about health in Altona
How is Altona’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Altona’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Altona?
For the health region that includes Altona, women can expect 82.9 years and men 78.7 (2022/2024).
How far is Altona from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 27 km from the average resident of Altona, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Altona?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).