FisherManitoba

The police who cover Fisher record more serious crime than Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: a Crime Severity Index of 307

For violence alone, its police area’s index was 432, above Manitoba’s towns (198) and Canadian towns (86) alike. Violence across its police area runs at 82.1 per 1,000 residents a year. Property crime in the area its police cover: 114.6 per 1,000 people a year.

Fisher earns a D− for hazard risk

More homes than usual carry radon here, 25% over the guideline where the typical town has 6.6%. Wildfire is a real hazard for Fisher: just over a tenth of the land within 25 km has burned since 1986, 0.32% a year, in the high band. The national inventory holds one flood map for it, from Hydrologic Forecasting and Water Management Branch of Manitoba Transporation and Infrastructure . Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.005 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). For radon tests, the only official count covers all of the Interlake health region, Fisher included.

Renting in Fisher costs 14% of household income, less than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns

One in ten households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below both Manitoba’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (18%). The owner-occupied share of households is 79%.

Household incomes in Fisher trail those of 88% of Canadian towns

The average trip to work took 25 min, close to Manitoba’s towns (24 min) and below Canadian towns (26 min). Nearly nine in ten commuters drove to work at the census.

For health, Fisher sits behind 87% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Interlake-Eastern Health Region: health survey and life expectancy

Lives here run to 78.5 years on average, lower than both Manitoba’s towns (80.0) and Canadian towns (81.5). Smoking is commoner than in the province: 17% of adults, against 12% for Manitoba. On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 50% very good or excellent, 51% for Manitoba. Measured from where Fisher’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 17 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km.

Winter nights bite in Fisher: January lows of −24.3°C, colder than Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns

In July the thermometer climbs to 25.2°C by day, about level with Canadian towns (25.5°C) and below Manitoba’s towns (25.8°C). Frost usually lifts by 3 June and returns around 13 September: 101 days without it. Also worth knowing: a normal December brings 39 cm of snow, the most of any month. Rain and snow peak in June, at 85 mm.

A normal November in Fisher runs from −10°C to −1°C

Into December, the normals move to −9°C and −20°C. About 32 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Expect about 37 mm of rain and snow over November. Over the year, July is warmest at 25°C by day and January coldest at −24°C by night.

James Bezan won Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman by 18,704 votes in 2021, a wider lead than in 88% of Canada’s ridings

James Bezan (Conservative Party of Canada) is the MP for Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, the riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP) that takes in Fisher.

No public library stands in Fisher: the closest, Peguis First Nation Public Library, is 27 km away

The next is Arborg Library (Arborg), 34 km away.

More of Fisher’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 29%

People 65 and over make up just over a fifth of the town. Visible minorities make up 5.9% of the population, below Manitoba’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. Under-15s account for 22% of the population.

More of the land around Fisher is protected than around nearly 9 in 10 Canadian towns

Fisher Bay Provincial Park is the closest provincial park, at 16 km. National parks are all over 100 km off. One mapped walking route passes within 2 km: the Interlake Pioneer Trail.