Photo: Bates: Photographer · Public domainLives run shorter around Glenella-Lansdowne: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Manitoba, 51% against 51%. What sets Glenella-Lansdowne apart within its region is distance: 24 km to a hospital on average, over 30 km for 37% of residents. Health gives Glenella-Lansdowne a grade of C−.
What stands out about health in Glenella-Lansdowne
A long way to hospital
Distance is Glenella-Lansdowne’s own health question: 37% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 20 km. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Glenella-Lansdowne is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Glenella-Lansdowne takes a trip of 27 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Glenella-Lansdowne sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Glenella-Lansdowne 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.
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.
From Glenella-Lansdowne, a hospital is 24 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Glenella-Lansdowne’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Glenella-Lansdowne travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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 24% of adults in the region, diabetes for 7.9%
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 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 21%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 3rd longest-lived of 5 in Manitoba, on a scale from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Glenella-Lansdowne’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Glenella-Lansdowne’s region’s dot is close to the line.
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Glenella-Lansdowne’s region is a typical case: 78.8 years at a score of 3.5, where the trend says 79.0. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.9.
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.
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 51% 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 ahead of Manitoba, 54% very good or excellent to 52%; 20% 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 Glenella-Lansdowne’s own.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
Questions about health in Glenella-Lansdowne
How far is Glenella-Lansdowne from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 27 km from the average resident of Glenella-Lansdowne, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Glenella-Lansdowne?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 81.2 for women, 76.6 for men around Glenella-Lansdowne (2022/2024).
How is Glenella-Lansdowne’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Glenella-Lansdowne: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Glenella-Lansdowne?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).