Lac du BonnetManitoba

Commuters in Lac du Bonnet travel further than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns, 34 min on average

Health in Lac du Bonnet trails 90% of Canadian towns

Shared with the rest of the Interlake-Eastern Health Region: health survey and life expectancy

The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Lac du Bonnet’s is long: 19 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. At 17%, the share of adults who smoke tops the 12% for Manitoba. A child born in the region can expect 78.5 years, below Manitoba’s towns (80.0) and Canadian towns (81.5) alike, and on top of that across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%).

More households own their home in Lac du Bonnet than in Manitoba’s towns or across Canadian towns: 95%

11% of households spent 30% or more of their income on shelter, below both Manitoba’s towns (15%) and Canadian towns (18%). A year’s rent came to 14% of the median household income, lower than both Manitoba’s towns (20%) and Canadian towns (20%).

Lac du Bonnet’s one school is Pinawa Secondary School

From the middle of town, the first elementary school is 33 km off, higher than both Manitoba’s towns (0.5 km) and Canadian towns (0.5 km). The nearest secondary school is 15 km away, higher than both Manitoba’s towns (1.1 km) and Canadian towns (1.2 km).

High radon around Lac du Bonnet: 21% of homes tested in the area exceed 200 Bq/m³

Shaking is less of a worry than in most places, at $0.004 a year per $1,000 of building value ($0.030 typical). Hydrologic Forecasting and Water Management Branch of Manitoba Transporation and Infrastructure has mapped the flood hazard here: one study on the national inventory. Fire reaches the land around Lac du Bonnet now and then: 6.4% within 25 km since 1986 (0.16% a year), below the high band. Nobody publishes radon tests for Lac du Bonnet alone, so this card uses the figure for the North Eastman health region.

The violent severity index where Lac du Bonnet is policed is 86 (Manitoba’s towns: 198; Canadian towns: 86)

Property crime in its police area ran at 25.5 per 1,000 residents a year, lower than both Manitoba’s towns (58.8) and Canadian towns (31.2). Violent crime in the area its police cover: 14.3 per 1,000 people a year. Lac du Bonnet doesn’t get its own Crime Severity Index, Violent Crime Severity Index, violent crime and property crime per 1,000 figures; the ones here come from the Lac du Bonnet detachment area.

More of Lac du Bonnet’s residents have an Indigenous identity than in Manitoba’s towns or Canadian towns: 18%

Visible minorities make up 1.2% of the population, below Manitoba’s towns (17%) and Canadian towns (15%) alike. 6.1% of residents came to Canada as immigrants, lower than Manitoba’s towns (7.7%) and near Canadian towns (6.4%).

Lac du Bonnet has some of the coldest winter nights among Canadian towns

The most precipitation falls in June: 99 mm in a normal year. The thermometer drops below freezing on 194 days a year, near Manitoba’s towns (193) and higher than Canadian towns (159). Snow peaks in December: 29 cm in a normal year.

What November brings in Lac du Bonnet: −8°C at night, freezing by day

Hour-by-hour figures come from ECCC’s Pinawa forecast, on the Weather page. About 22 cm of snow falls in a normal November. Expect about 24 mm of rain and snow over November. Across the year, normals run from −22°C nights in January to 25°C afternoons in July.

James Bezan won Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman by 18,704 votes in 2021, a wider lead than in 88% of Canada’s ridings

The riding (a federal electoral district, which elects one MP) covering Lac du Bonnet is Selkirk—Interlake—Eastman, and James Bezan (Conservative Party of Canada) represents it in the House of Commons.

No public library stands in Lac du Bonnet: the closest, Lac du Bonnet Regional Library, is 5.1 km away

After it comes Pinawa Public Library (Pinawa), 15 km away.

A provincial park at Lac du Bonnet’s edge: Pinawa Dam Provincial Park

The 10 km around town hold 11 protected areas. National parks are all over 100 km off. 4.2% of the land and water within 10 km is protected (the typical Canadian town: 2.3%). 3 beaches are mapped within 5 km, the nearest Wendigo Beach.