Photo: Suburban Rapid Transit Co. via Winnipeg Electric Co. · Public domainVery good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Headingley’s health region
Women in the region live to 82.9 and men to 78.7, 80.7 years taken together (2022/2024). For Headingley itself the measure is access, and it lags: 8.8 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Headingley is B−, #136 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,052 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Headingley
More years than its deprivation would give
Headingley’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.7 predicts: 80.7 years against 78.3. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Headingley grades B− 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: #136 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,052 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 2.4 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Headingley’s region’s dot is above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.7 at 78.3 years of life; Headingley’s region does better, at 80.7. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
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%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting to hospital from Headingley: 8.8 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Headingley, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Headingley 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Manitoba, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Manitoba, 12.2 years ahead of the last at 68.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Headingley’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 52% 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
Mental health beats Manitoba as well: 56% very good or excellent to 52%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Headingley is 27th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (5,271 to 5,465 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 4.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | West Meadowlark Park AB B+ | 5,386 | 0.6 km | 51% |
| 2 | Stonewall MB C | 5,443 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Billings Bridge - Heron Park ON A+ | 5,370 | 0.8 km | 56% |
| 25 | Garner ON B | 5,456 | 6.8 km | 53% |
| 26 | Burton NB C | 5,424 | 8.3 km | 45% |
| 27 | Headingley MB B− | 5,368 | 8.8 km | 51% |
| 28 | Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue QC A− | 5,393 | 9.2 km | 54% |
| 29 | Inverness County, Subdivision A NS C− | 5,389 | 12 km | 49% |
| 40 | Deer Lake NL D | 5,319 | 45 km | 47% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Headingley
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Not every neighbour shares the region: Glendale’s life expectancy is 80.0, this region’s 80.7. Westwood is the closest to care, 2.0 km to Headingley’s 8.8 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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. Only the distances on this page belong to Headingley alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
Questions about health in Headingley
How is Headingley’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Headingley’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Headingley from a hospital?
For everyday care, Headingley’s residents are 5.9 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Headingley?
There is no figure for Headingley alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 78.7 for men in 2022/2024.
How healthy is Headingley?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).