Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0A hospital trip from Cartier means 30 km on average, in a straight line
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. Pharmacies are closer at hand, 27 km away on average and 0.0 of them within 3 km of a typical home. Cartier grades C for health, #165 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,254 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cartier
Pharmacies far off
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 27 km from the average home in Cartier, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; Cartier’s region, at 80.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Cartier 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.
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: #165 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,254 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.4 years
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Cartier’s region comes out above the trend.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Cartier’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. Against the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, none lives longer; the middle of the group 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.
Pharmacies around Cartier: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 27 km away
Straight-line distances from each part of Cartier, weighted by who lives there.
Cartier is further out 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%
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
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%.
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Cartier 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.
52% 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
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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Cartier comes 40th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,686 to 3,800 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 2 | Central ON B | 3,698 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | Meadowgreen SK A− | 3,782 | 1.0 km | 49% |
| 38 | Lake Cowichan BC C+ | 3,757 | 24 km | 47% |
| 39 | Alnwick NB D− | 3,767 | 26 km | 47% |
| 40 | Cartier MB C | 3,739 | 30 km | 51% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cartier
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cartier | 30 km | 51% | 80.7 | C |
| St. François Xavier 17 km | 22 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Cartier from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cartier itself is the trip to care.
- 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 Cartier
How far is Cartier from a hospital?
Residents of Cartier have a pharmacy 27 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Cartier’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Cartier’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Cartier?
For the health region that includes Cartier, women can expect 82.9 years and men 78.7 (2022/2024).
How healthy is Cartier?
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).