Photo: Krazytea · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Grey, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.7 years (82.9 for women, 78.7 for men, 2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Grey’s is long: 13 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Grey grades C+ for health, #152 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,117 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Grey
Far from a hospital
Residents of Grey live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (9.5 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Pharmacies far off
From the average home in Grey, a pharmacy is 24 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; Grey’s region, at 80.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Grey 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: #152 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,117 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.
2.4 years above the line for regions this deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Grey’s, lies over the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). Grey’s region, at 3.7, outlives the trend’s 78.3 years with 80.7. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median is 78.2 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.
Getting to hospital from Grey: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Grey’s own, not the region’s.
From Grey that is further 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
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, 40%, 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.
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
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 years.
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 Grey’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 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 looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 20% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: Grey comes 28th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,613 to 2,696 people, median 7.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hanna AB B− | 2,665 | 0.5 km | 52% |
| 2 | Berwick NS C− | 2,631 | 0.9 km | 44% |
| 3 | Outlook SK B+ | 2,629 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 26 | Spaniard's Bay NL D− | 2,664 | 12 km | 44% |
| 27 | Kinburn ON A | 2,639 | 13 km | 56% |
| 28 | Grey MB C+ | 2,655 | 13 km | 51% |
| 29 | East River, Part 1 PE B− | 2,657 | 14 km | 51% |
| 30 | Emerson-Franklin MB C+ | 2,686 | 15 km | 51% |
| 40 | Tumbler Ridge BC D | 2,663 | 75 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Grey
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grey | 13 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
| Dufferin 16 km | 9.1 km | 51% | 80.7 | B− |
The neighbours all sit in Grey’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Grey itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Grey
How far is Grey from a hospital?
Residents of Grey have a pharmacy 24 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Grey’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Grey’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
What is the life expectancy in Grey?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Grey (2022/2024).
How healthy is Grey?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
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).