Photo: Words in the Wind · CC BY-SA 4.0For health, Bifrost-Riverton sits behind 85% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Bifrost-Riverton’s is long: 15 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Bifrost-Riverton grades D for health, #177 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,457 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Bifrost-Riverton
Life expectancy below the norm
Born around Bifrost-Riverton, 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 ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Bifrost-Riverton is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
For 0% of homes in Bifrost-Riverton the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 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: 29% report high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Bifrost-Riverton 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. Its place: #177 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,457 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Bifrost-Riverton’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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.
Getting to hospital from Bifrost-Riverton: 15 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Bifrost-Riverton’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Bifrost-Riverton is on the far side. 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.9 years
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Bifrost-Riverton’s, lies over the trend.
Deprivation explains much of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102 of them), yet Bifrost-Riverton’s region beats it: 78.5 years against the 77.6 the trend gives a score of 3.9. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.5 years. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $84,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Self-rated health trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent, against 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 weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Bifrost-Riverton is 33rd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,453 to 3,581 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 2 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 3 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 31 | Saint-Isidore QC A− | 3,550 | 13 km | 59% |
| 32 | Edwards - Carlsbad Springs ON A | 3,536 | 14 km | 56% |
| 33 | Bifrost-Riverton MB D | 3,518 | 15 km | 50% |
| 34 | Morris MB C+ | 3,550 | 15 km | 51% |
| 35 | Kingston NB D | 3,577 | 22 km | 43% |
| 40 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC C− | 3,475 | 29 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Bifrost-Riverton
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bifrost-Riverton | 15 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Arborg 10.0 km | 0.8 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Bifrost-Riverton’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of Arborg live nearer a hospital, at 0.8 km against 15 km in Bifrost-Riverton.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- 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 Bifrost-Riverton’s own.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
Questions about health in Bifrost-Riverton
How is Bifrost-Riverton’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Bifrost-Riverton has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Bifrost-Riverton?
For the health region that includes Bifrost-Riverton, women can expect 81.3 years and men 76.0 (2022/2024).
How far is Bifrost-Riverton from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 14 km from the average resident of Bifrost-Riverton, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Bifrost-Riverton?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).