Health in Kelsey · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
On health, Kelsey falls short of 98% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 40% of adults say their health is very good or excellent; Manitoba as a whole reaches 51%. Measured from where Kelsey’s residents live, a hospital is 21 km away on average and 40% of them are over 30 km out. Kelsey grades D− for health.
Born around Kelsey, a child can expect 13.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 16.5 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Below the trend for its deprivation
At 68.5 years, Kelsey’s region trails the 74.1 that regions scoring 4.9 on the index typically reach. For its deprivation ↓
Less upbeat about their health
The survey’s age-standardised figure sits 11.4 points under the typical Canadian town’s, and 41% answered very good or excellent. Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 23% of adults, diabetes for 14%. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Kelsey 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 (40%)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (22%)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (68.5)Better than 0% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (21 km)Better than 22% 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
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
68.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
16.5
more years expected at 65
5th
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
This is the shortest-lived of the 5 regions in Manitoba, 12.2 years behind the first at 80.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.1
Economic dependency2.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.3
Situational vulnerability4.6
The index is context and never graded: it describes Kelsey’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.
For its deprivation
5.6 fewer years of life than regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Kelsey’s lies below the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Shorter lives come with deeper deprivation across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83). Even allowing for its score of 4.9, Kelsey’s region’s 68.5 years sit under the line’s 74.1. Most of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores outlive it (9 of 10, median 77.2 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health trails Manitoba: 41% 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
41%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
24%
Most days quite a bit stressful
31%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
On mental health the region is behind Manitoba, 44% very good or excellent to 52%; 31% 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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
23%
Arthritis
27%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
64%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
9.6%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 64%, the province 36%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
Getting to hospital from Kelsey: 21 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Kelsey’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
21 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
57 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
155 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
40%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Kelsey that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The centre of population is 40 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 21 km. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
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Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Kelsey shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
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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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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.
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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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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Kelsey
How healthy is Kelsey?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 22% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
What is the life expectancy in Kelsey?
There is no figure for Kelsey alone; its health region’s is 70.5 for women and 66.9 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Kelsey from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Kelsey is 155 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How is Kelsey’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Kelsey’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0