Photo: Rkehler3 · CC BY-SA 3.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Emerson-Franklin’s health region
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.7, women 82.9 and men 78.7 (2022/2024). What sets Emerson-Franklin apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 15 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Emerson-Franklin is C+, #157 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,159 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Emerson-Franklin
A long way to hospital
Distance is Emerson-Franklin’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Emerson-Franklin sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.7, would put Emerson-Franklin’s region near 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Emerson-Franklin 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: #157 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,159 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.
Ahead of regions as deprived by 2.4 years of life
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Emerson-Franklin’s region comes out above the trend.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Emerson-Franklin’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median 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.
From Emerson-Franklin, a hospital is 15 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Emerson-Franklin, weighted by who lives there.
From Emerson-Franklin that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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
Top of the 5 regions in Manitoba: the lowest figure is 68.5, 12.2 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
This is the one part of the block measured for Emerson-Franklin itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.3%
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.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% 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: 56% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Emerson-Franklin comes 27th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,648 to 2,724 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 9.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Sundre AB C+ | 2,683 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 2,671 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 25 | Eastman QC A | 2,706 | 14 km | 57% |
| 26 | East River, Part 1 PE B− | 2,657 | 14 km | 51% |
| 27 | Emerson-Franklin MB C+ | 2,686 | 15 km | 51% |
| 28 | Freelton ON B− | 2,724 | 15 km | 53% |
| 29 | Saint-Alexandre QC A− | 2,685 | 16 km | 55% |
| 40 | Tumbler Ridge BC D | 2,663 | 75 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Emerson-Franklin alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Emerson-Franklin
How far is Emerson-Franklin from a hospital?
For everyday care, Emerson-Franklin’s residents are 13 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Emerson-Franklin?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Emerson-Franklin’s health region only: 82.9 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
How is Emerson-Franklin’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Emerson-Franklin’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Emerson-Franklin?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).