Photo: The original uploader was Cherkowski at Wikipedia . · CC BY 2.5Expect 78.8 years of life in the region around Cornwallis, 2.7 under the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba’s 51%. Measured from where Cornwallis’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 15 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Cornwallis a grade of C, #167 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,265 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Cornwallis
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Cornwallis the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 16 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Cornwallis than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Cornwallis 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: #167 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,265 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.
The nearest hospital is 15 km from the average home in Cornwallis
Straight-line distances from each part of Cornwallis, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Cornwallis travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Cornwallis’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.5 would be expected to reach 79.0 years, and Cornwallis’ region is close, at 78.8. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.9.
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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
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 region is 3rd longest-lived of 5 in Manitoba, on a scale from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Cornwallis’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
Mental health beats Manitoba as well: 54% 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.
Cornwallis is 32nd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,609 to 4,808 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Central McDougall AB B+ | 4,802 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Barrhead AB C− | 4,768 | 0.7 km | 48% |
| 3 | Jasper AB C− | 4,627 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 30 | Amaranth ON B | 4,808 | 15 km | 51% |
| 31 | Sutton QC A | 4,775 | 15 km | 57% |
| 32 | Cornwallis MB C | 4,705 | 15 km | 51% |
| 33 | Electoral Area D, Fraser-Fort George BC D | 4,802 | 15 km | 39% |
| 34 | Central Okanagan BC B− | 4,784 | 16 km | 52% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 4,754 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Cornwallis
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cornwallis | 15 km | 51% | 78.8 | C |
| Brandon 18 km | 2.5 km | 51% | 78.8 | C+ |
One health region covers Cornwallis and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Brandon is the closest to care, 2.5 km to Cornwallis’ 15 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Cornwallis itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Cornwallis
What is the life expectancy in Cornwallis?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.2 for women, 76.6 for men around Cornwallis (2022/2024).
How far is Cornwallis from a hospital?
Residents of Cornwallis have a pharmacy 14 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Cornwallis’ Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Cornwallis’ distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How healthy is Cornwallis?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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).