On health, Berens River 13 falls short of 95% of Canadian towns
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Berens River 13 live 108 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. As a First Nations reserve, Berens River 13 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Berens River 13. Health gives Berens River 13 a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Berens River 13
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Berens River 13, a child can expect 3.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Berens River 13 live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (107 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Berens River 13 than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Berens River 13 takes a trip of 148 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. 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.
Berens River 13 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 5 health regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 4th of 5 in Manitoba: the regions span 68.5 to 80.7 years at birth.
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 Berens River 13’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
The nearest hospital is 108 km from the average home in Berens River 13
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Berens River 13’s own, not the region’s.
From Berens River 13 that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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 (29%) and diabetes (9.8%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 29% to the province’s 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
0.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Berens River 13’s dot is marked, above the line.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Berens River 13’s region sits above it: 78.5 years where a score of 3.9 predicts 77.6. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.5 years. Its towns’ household income, about $84,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 0.14).
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% to 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 trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent to 52%, with 17% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Berens River 13 shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Berens River 13
How far is Berens River 13 from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Berens River 13 is 148 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Berens River 13’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Berens River 13’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
What is the life expectancy in Berens River 13?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.3 for women, 76.0 for men around Berens River 13 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Berens River 13?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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).