Health in Clanwilliam-Erickson · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Expect 78.8 years of life in the region around Clanwilliam-Erickson, 2.7 under the typical Canadian town
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Manitoba. For Clanwilliam-Erickson itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Clanwilliam-Erickson a grade of C+.
Around Clanwilliam-Erickson, 10% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.5 out of 5, Clanwilliam-Erickson sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Clanwilliam-Erickson 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 (2.3 km)Better than 84% 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.
The wider area
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
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
The region comes 3rd of 5 in Manitoba, where life expectancy runs from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.9
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.5
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Clanwilliam-Erickson’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
For its deprivation
Just under the trend for regions as deprived
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Clanwilliam-Erickson’s region comes out on the trend.
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 Clanwilliam-Erickson 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.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Clanwilliam-Erickson: 2.3 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Clanwilliam-Erickson’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
2.3 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
57 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
2.5 km
residents’ average distance
0.5 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
For distance to care Clanwilliam-Erickson is ordinary: 3.1 km is the typical figure in Manitoba, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (54% against 52%), while 20% call most days 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 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. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Clanwilliam-Erickson itself is the trip to care.
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Clanwilliam-Erickson
What is the life expectancy in Clanwilliam-Erickson?
There is no figure for Clanwilliam-Erickson alone; its health region’s is 81.2 for women and 76.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Clanwilliam-Erickson from a hospital?
Residents of Clanwilliam-Erickson have a pharmacy 2.5 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Clanwilliam-Erickson?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
How is Clanwilliam-Erickson’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Clanwilliam-Erickson has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
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