Health in Boissevain · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Boissevain’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.7 years: life expectancy 78.8
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). For Boissevain itself the measure is access: 2.9 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Boissevain grades C+ for health.
Around Boissevain, 10% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Boissevain 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.9 km)Better than 80% of Canadian towns
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.
Conditions and habits
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.9% diabetes
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
7.9%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
35%
Manitoba
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 40%, the province 36%. At 24%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
For its deprivation
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Boissevain’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Boissevain belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.5 predicts: 78.8 years, the trend 79.0. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.9 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Boissevain: 2.9 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Boissevain, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
49 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.7 km
residents’ average distance
0.8 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Boissevain goes. The centre of population is 0.5 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 2.9 km. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 5 regions in Manitoba
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Southern Health Region80.7
Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region80.0
Prairie Mountain Health Region78.8
Interlake-Eastern Health Region78.5
Northern Health Region68.5
Ranked 3rd 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
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency3.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.5
Situational vulnerability3.1
This is the one part of the block measured for Boissevain itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (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
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
85%
Manitoba
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 54% very good or excellent to 52%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Boissevain shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Boissevain
What is the life expectancy in Boissevain?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Boissevain’s health region only: 81.2 years for women and 76.6 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Boissevain from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Boissevain is 2.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Boissevain?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Boissevain’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Boissevain’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
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