Photo: Travel Manitoba · CC BY 2.0Dunnottar scores below 90% of Canadian towns for health
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). Measured from where Dunnottar’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 20 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. Dunnottar grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Dunnottar
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Dunnottar, a child can expect 3.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Dunnottar than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
For 0% of homes in Dunnottar the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 20 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Dunnottar takes a trip of 23 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Dunnottar grades D 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.
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.
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
Of the 5 health regions in Manitoba, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 68.5 and a high of 80.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Dunnottar’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (9.8%)
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 29% to the province’s 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
From Dunnottar, a hospital is 20 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Dunnottar, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Dunnottar is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
0.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Dunnottar’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Dunnottar’s region, at 3.9, outlives the trend’s 77.6 years with 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $84,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Self-rated health trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent, against 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Dunnottar
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dunnottar | 20 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Winnipeg Beach 5.7 km | 14 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
Around Dunnottar the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Dunnottar itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Dunnottar
How far is Dunnottar from a hospital?
Residents of Dunnottar have a pharmacy 23 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Dunnottar?
Women in Dunnottar’s region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Dunnottar’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Dunnottar: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Dunnottar?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 20% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).