Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainLife expectancy around Flin Flon (Part) is 68.5 years, 13.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 40% very good or excellent, against 51% in Manitoba. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Flin Flon (Part) is well placed: 1.7 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Flin Flon (Part) grades D for health, #181 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,499 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Flin Flon (Part)
Shorter lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 4.9, the trend across regions gives 74.1 years of life; Flin Flon (Part)’s region reaches only 68.5. For its deprivation ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Adjusted for age, the region’s share in very good or excellent health is 11.4 points below the typical Canadian town’s; as answered, it is 41%. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 23% report high blood pressure and 14% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Flin Flon (Part) is well above the typical town’s; 9.6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Flin Flon (Part) 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. Its place: #181 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,499 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 5.6 years behind the trend
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Flin Flon (Part)’s dot is marked, under the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.9, the expected figure is 74.1 years, and Flin Flon (Part)’s region falls below with 68.5. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 9 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 77.2 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 41% to 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 trails Manitoba: 44% very good or excellent to 52%, with 31% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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, 64%, tops Manitoba (36%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting to hospital from Flin Flon (Part): 1.7 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Flin Flon (Part), weighted by who lives there.
From Flin Flon (Part) that is nearer than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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
No region of the 5 in Manitoba has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 80.7, 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; Flin Flon (Part)’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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Flin Flon (Part) comes 9th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (4,641 to 4,817 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End East ON B+ | 4,816 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Central McDougall AB B+ | 4,802 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 3 | Barrhead AB C− | 4,768 | 0.7 km | 48% |
| 7 | Qualicum - Redwood ON A+ | 4,761 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 8 | Kingsland AB A+ | 4,700 | 1.4 km | 56% |
| 9 | Flin Flon (Part) MB D | 4,732 | 1.7 km | 40% |
| 10 | Macewan Glen AB A+ | 4,718 | 1.7 km | 56% |
| 11 | Pembina Strip MB B+ | 4,715 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 40 | Hampton NB D | 4,754 | 32 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Flin Flon (Part)
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flin Flon (Part) | 1.7 km | 40% | 68.5 | D |
| Creighton 4.3 km | 2.5 km | — | 70.0 | — |
Creighton falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 70.0 against 68.5 here.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Flin Flon (Part) shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Flin Flon (Part)
How healthy is Flin Flon (Part)?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 22% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Flin Flon (Part)?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Flin Flon (Part)’s health region only: 70.5 years for women and 66.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Flin Flon (Part)’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Flin Flon (Part)’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Flin Flon (Part) from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Flin Flon (Part) is 215 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
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).