Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround La Broquerie, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.7, with women at 82.9 and men at 78.7. For La Broquerie itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. La Broquerie grades C+ for health, #150 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,112 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in La Broquerie
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in La Broquerie the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 10 km. Getting care ↓
Harder circumstances
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, La Broquerie’s neighbourhoods average 4.5 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; La Broquerie’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.
La Broquerie 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: #150 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,112 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.4 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; La Broquerie’s dot is marked, above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, La Broquerie’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 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.
Getting to hospital from La Broquerie: 13 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is La Broquerie’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of La Broquerie 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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Top of the 5 regions in Manitoba: the lowest figure is 68.5, 12.2 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes La Broquerie’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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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.
52% 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
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 56% very good or excellent to 52%; 20% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: La Broquerie comes 31st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 7,675 to 7,945 people, median 5.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Landsdale ON B+ | 7,681 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Central St. Boniface MB B+ | 7,772 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Killarney/Glengarry AB A+ | 7,935 | 1.1 km | 56% |
| 29 | Electoral Area A, Nanaimo BC B− | 7,825 | 11 km | 47% |
| 30 | Brazeau County AB C | 7,685 | 11 km | 52% |
| 31 | La Broquerie MB C+ | 7,808 | 13 km | 51% |
| 32 | Augusta ON C+ | 7,767 | 13 km | 51% |
| 33 | Chatsworth ON C | 7,770 | 13 km | 48% |
| 40 | Acton Vale QC B+ | 7,945 | 26 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around La Broquerie
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
One health region covers La Broquerie and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. Steinbach is the closest to care, 1.4 km to La Broquerie’s 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for La Broquerie itself is the trip to care.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- 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.
Questions about health in La Broquerie
How far is La Broquerie from a hospital?
Residents of La Broquerie have a pharmacy 13 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in La Broquerie?
Women in La Broquerie’s region live to 82.9 on average and men to 78.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is La Broquerie’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus La Broquerie’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is La Broquerie?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind 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).