Photo: Intermedichbo · CC BY-SA 4.0Life expectancy around Dauphin is 78.8 years, 2.7 less than for the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. What sets Dauphin apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Dauphin a grade of B−, #147 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,087 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Dauphin
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Dauphin is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.6 out of 5, Dauphin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
A hospital close by
Measured from where people live, Dauphin is among the nearest towns to hospital care; its centre is 1.1 km away. 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.
Dauphin 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: #147 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,087 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.
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
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 21%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 1.4 km from the average home in Dauphin
Straight-line distances from each part of Dauphin, weighted by who lives there.
Dauphin 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.
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
Life expectancy in Manitoba runs from 68.5 to 80.7; this region sits 3rd of the 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 Dauphin’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.
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 Dauphin’s region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.5, the expected figure is 79.0 years, and Dauphin’s region matches it closely with 78.8. 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 51% and 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.
Dauphin is 6th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (8,421 to 8,744 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Garneau AB B+ | 8,492 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | West Centretown ON A+ | 8,560 | 0.7 km | 56% |
| 3 | Iqaluit NU D | 8,612 | 0.8 km | 39% |
| 4 | Innisfail AB C+ | 8,736 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 5 | Hanover ON B− | 8,723 | 1.3 km | 48% |
| 6 | Dauphin MB B− | 8,587 | 1.4 km | 51% |
| 7 | Renfrew ON C+ | 8,721 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 8 | Trail BC A | 8,539 | 1.7 km | 55% |
| 40 | Muskoka Lakes ON B | 8,463 | 20 km | 54% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Dauphin
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dauphin | 1.4 km | 51% | 78.8 | B− |
| Dauphin 7.0 km | 12 km | 51% | 78.8 | C |
Every place around Dauphin shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Residents of Dauphin live further from a hospital, at 12 km against 1.4 km in Dauphin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Dauphin’s own.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Dauphin
How is Dauphin’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Dauphin has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Dauphin?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.2 for women, 76.6 for men around Dauphin (2022/2024).
How far is Dauphin from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.8 km from the average resident of Dauphin, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Dauphin?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).