Health in Grahamdale · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Grahamdale scores below 93% of Canadian towns for health
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). Closer to home, a hospital is 28 km from the average resident of Grahamdale, further than the usual 3.7 km. Grahamdale grades D for health.
Manitoba: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Interlake-Eastern Health Region
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Born around Grahamdale, a child can expect 3.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Grahamdale’s own health question: 20% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 30 km. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around Grahamdale than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Grahamdale takes a trip of 71 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. 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.
Health Grade
Grahamdale 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.
Very good or excellent health (50%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 19% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.5)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (28 km)Better than 11% of Canadian towns
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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
78.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
4th
longest of 5 regions in Manitoba
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Southern Health Region80.7
Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region80.0
Prairie Mountain Health Region78.8
Interlake-Eastern Health Region78.5
Northern Health Region68.5
Ranked 4th of 5 in Manitoba: the regions span 68.5 to 80.7 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency4.4
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.6
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Grahamdale’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.
Getting care
From Grahamdale, a hospital is 28 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Grahamdale’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
28 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
64 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
71 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
20%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Grahamdale is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
In the region, high blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (9.8%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
29%
Arthritis
30%
Diabetes
9.8%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
39%
Manitoba
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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 0.9 years longer than its deprivation predicts
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Grahamdale’s region shows above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.9, Grahamdale’s region would be expected to reach 77.6 years; it 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. Higher incomes, shorter lives: about $84,000 a household, above most regions’, with a life expectancy below most; income and lifespan correlate at only 0.14 across regions.
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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent, against 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
Health very good or excellent
49%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
12%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
66%
Satisfied with life
88%
Manitoba
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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Grahamdale itself is the trip to care.
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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.
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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.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
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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 Grahamdale
How far is Grahamdale from a hospital?
Residents of Grahamdale have a pharmacy 71 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Grahamdale?
There is no figure for Grahamdale alone; its health region’s is 81.3 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Grahamdale’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Grahamdale: 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 Grahamdale?
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%.
Photo: Rob Swystun from Winnipeg, Canada · CC BY 2.0