Photo: R Reimer at English Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Life expectancy around Gimli is 78.5 years, 3.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. For Gimli itself the measure is access, and it lags: 5.0 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Health gives Gimli a grade of C−, #172 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,357 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Gimli
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Gimli than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Gimli takes a trip of 29 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 9.8%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Gimli 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: #172 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,357 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.
29% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes
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
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 43%, the province 36%. At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 5.0 km from the average home in Gimli
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Gimli’s own, not the region’s.
Gimli is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 1.1 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 5.0 km. 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 0.9 years
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Gimli’s region shows above the trend.
At 3.9 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 77.6 years, and the region Gimli belongs to reaches 78.5. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.5 years. A household income of about $84,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Gimli’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% 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
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (49% against 52%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Gimli is 24th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,751 to 7,086 people, median 4.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 2 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Lowertown East ON A+ | 6,996 | 1.2 km | 56% |
| 22 | Willow Park AB A | 6,891 | 4.7 km | 56% |
| 23 | Hope ON A | 6,997 | 4.8 km | 51% |
| 24 | Gimli MB C− | 6,914 | 5.0 km | 50% |
| 25 | Springhill NS D | 7,015 | 5.1 km | 42% |
| 26 | Applewood Park AB A | 6,835 | 5.4 km | 56% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Gimli
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gimli | 5.0 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Winnipeg Beach 15 km | 14 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
Same region, same survey: Gimli’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Winnipeg Beach is the furthest from care, 14 km to Gimli’s 5.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Gimli itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
Questions about health in Gimli
What is the life expectancy in Gimli?
There is no figure for Gimli alone; its health region’s is 81.3 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Gimli’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Gimli’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Gimli?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 20%.
How far is Gimli from a hospital?
Residents of Gimli have a pharmacy 29 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).