Health in Harrison Park · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
People in Harrison Park’s health region live to 78.8 on average, 2.7 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. What sets Harrison Park apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 18 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Harrison Park grades C for health.
Manitoba: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Prairie Mountain Health Region
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Residents of Harrison Park live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (17 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
The age-standardised smoking rate around Harrison Park is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
From the average home in Harrison Park, a pharmacy is 18 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. 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
Harrison Park 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (18 km)Better than 29% 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.
Getting care
From Harrison Park, a hospital is 18 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Harrison Park’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
18 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
57 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
18 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Harrison Park is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
7.9%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
35%
Manitoba
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 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
About as long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly less
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Harrison Park’s dot is marked, close to the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Harrison Park’s region fits it, 78.8 years at 3.5 against the line’s 79.0. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.9 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.
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
3rd
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
Among the 5 regions in Manitoba, from 68.5 to 80.7 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency4.7
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.4
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Harrison Park’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.
Health survey
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (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
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
85%
Manitoba
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (54% against 52%), while 20% call most days 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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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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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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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.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Harrison Park itself is the trip to care.
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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.
Questions about health in Harrison Park
How far is Harrison Park from a hospital?
Residents of Harrison Park have a pharmacy 18 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Harrison Park?
For the health region that includes Harrison Park, women can expect 81.2 years and men 76.6 (2022/2024).
How is Harrison Park’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Harrison Park has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Harrison Park?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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