Photo: HS01 · CC BY-SA 4.051% of adults around Dufferin rate their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 80.7 years, 82.9 for a girl and 78.7 for a boy (2022/2024). What sets Dufferin apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 9.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Dufferin is B−, #138 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,057 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Dufferin
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Dufferin’s region gains years: 80.7 where the trend says 78.3. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Dufferin 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: #138 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,057 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.
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.4 years ahead of the trend
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Dufferin’s region shows above the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Dufferin’s region sits above it: 80.7 years where a score of 3.7 predicts 78.3. 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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
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.
The nearest hospital is 9.1 km from the average home in Dufferin
Straight-line distances from each part of Dufferin, weighted by who lives there.
Dufferin 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.
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
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 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; Dufferin’s 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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 56% 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.
Dufferin is 24th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,536 to 2,642 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 8.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rosetown SK B+ | 2,600 | 0.4 km | 54% |
| 2 | City Commercial Core ON A | 2,581 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 3 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 22 | Saint-Mathieu QC A | 2,642 | 8.5 km | 55% |
| 23 | Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel QC A | 2,599 | 9.1 km | 55% |
| 24 | Dufferin MB B− | 2,587 | 9.1 km | 51% |
| 25 | East Preston NS B | 2,573 | 10 km | 51% |
| 26 | Kinburn ON A | 2,639 | 13 km | 56% |
| 40 | High Prairie AB D− | 2,607 | 41 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Dufferin
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Dufferin’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Carman is the closest to care, 1.1 km to Dufferin’s 9.1 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Dufferin shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Dufferin
How far is Dufferin from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Dufferin is 11 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Dufferin’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Dufferin: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Dufferin?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Dufferin (2022/2024).
How healthy is Dufferin?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% 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).