Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainFor health, Fairford 50 sits behind 95% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 50 km from the average resident of Fairford 50, and 100% live more than 30 km away. Fairford 50 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Fairford 50. Health gives Fairford 50 a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Fairford 50
Life expectancy below the norm
Fairford 50’s region sits 3.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
For 100% of homes in Fairford 50 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 50 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Fairford 50 is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 84 km from the average home in Fairford 50, so prescriptions mean a drive. 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.
Fairford 50 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.
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 4th of the 5.
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; Fairford 50’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.
From Fairford 50, a hospital is 50 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Fairford 50, 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, Fairford 50 is on the far side. 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.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.8%
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 43%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% 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 region lives 0.9 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Fairford 50’s region is above the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.6 years, and Fairford 50’s region does better with 78.5. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.5 years. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $84,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% to 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
On mental health the region is behind Manitoba, 49% very good or excellent to 52%; 17% 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.
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 Fairford 50’s own.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
Questions about health in Fairford 50
How far is Fairford 50 from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 84 km from the average resident of Fairford 50, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Fairford 50?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.3 for women, 76.0 for men around Fairford 50 (2022/2024).
How is Fairford 50’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Fairford 50: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
How healthy is Fairford 50?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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).