Photo: Samyaka.verma · CC BY-SA 3.051% of adults around Carman rate 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). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Carman is well placed: 1.1 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Carman a grade of B, #129 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,914 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Carman
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Carman’s region reaches 80.7. For its deprivation ↓
Near a hospital
Few Canadian towns live as close to a hospital as Carman; from its centre of population the trip is 1.2 km. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Carman 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: #129 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,914 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 2.4 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Carman’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Use the deprivation index alone and Carman’s region, at 3.7, should live about 78.3 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 80.7. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 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.
Getting to hospital from Carman: 1.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Carman, weighted by who lives there.
Carman is closer in than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.3%
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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 Carman’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%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health beats Manitoba as well: 56% very good or excellent to 52%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Carman is 8th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,491 to 3,604 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Ste. Anne MB B | 3,587 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Beausejour MB C | 3,565 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Victoria Park ON A | 3,574 | 0.7 km | 53% |
| 6 | Thorncliff AB B+ | 3,564 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 7 | Saint-Pascal QC A | 3,516 | 1.1 km | 60% |
| 8 | Carman MB B | 3,547 | 1.1 km | 51% |
| 9 | Three Hills AB C+ | 3,502 | 1.2 km | 52% |
| 10 | Guybourg QC A | 3,554 | 1.4 km | 54% |
| 40 | Opportunity No. 17 AB D− | 3,592 | 112 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Carman
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers Carman and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Residents of Roland live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 1.1 km in Carman.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Carman itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Carman
How is Carman’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Carman’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Carman?
For the health region that includes Carman, women can expect 82.9 years and men 78.7 (2022/2024).
How far is Carman from a hospital?
Residents of Carman have a pharmacy 0.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Carman?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% 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).