Health in Cartwright-Roblin · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Cartwright-Roblin’s health region live to 78.8 on average, 2.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Cartwright-Roblin apart within its region is distance, and at 4.4 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Cartwright-Roblin is C+.
Manitoba: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Prairie Mountain Health Region
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Around Cartwright-Roblin, 10% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Cartwright-Roblin, a pharmacy is 27 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. 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.
Health Grade
Cartwright-Roblin 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 (4.4 km)Better than 75% 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Cartwright-Roblin: 4.4 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Cartwright-Roblin’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
4.4 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.4 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
27 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 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
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Cartwright-Roblin is on the far side. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 0.2 km, while the average resident is 4.4 km away. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Cartwright-Roblin’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
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 Cartwright-Roblin belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.5 predicts: 78.8 years, the trend 79.0. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 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.
The wider area
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.
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 dependency2.4
Ethno-cultural composition2.8
Situational vulnerability2.6
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Cartwright-Roblin’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 51% 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
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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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.
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Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
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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.
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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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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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Cartwright-Roblin alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Cartwright-Roblin
What is the life expectancy in Cartwright-Roblin?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.2 for women, 76.6 for men around Cartwright-Roblin (2022/2024).
How is Cartwright-Roblin’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Cartwright-Roblin’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Cartwright-Roblin from a hospital?
For everyday care, Cartwright-Roblin’s residents are 27 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Cartwright-Roblin?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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