Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Lac du Bonnet scores below 87% of Canadian towns for health
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Manitoba, 50% against 51%. What sets Lac du Bonnet apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 17 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Lac du Bonnet grades D for health.
What stands out about health in Lac du Bonnet
Life expectancy below the norm
Life expectancy in the region around Lac du Bonnet runs 3.0 years behind the typical Canadian town’s, and at 65 people can expect 20.2 more years (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Lac du Bonnet than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of Lac du Bonnet 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 ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 9.8%. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
Lac du Bonnet 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.
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.
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
Among the 5 regions in Manitoba, from 68.5 to 80.7 years, this one is 4th.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Lac du Bonnet’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.8%
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 43%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 21%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
From Lac du Bonnet, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lac du Bonnet’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Lac du Bonnet is on the far side. 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.
The region lives 0.9 years longer than its deprivation predicts
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Lac du Bonnet’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.6 years, and Lac du Bonnet’s region does better with 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $84,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 0.14).
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.
49% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Lac du Bonnet
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lac du Bonnet | 17 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Lac du Bonnet 5.1 km | 19 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Pinawa 17 km | 0.8 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
Same region, same survey: Lac du Bonnet’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Pinawa is the closest to care, 0.8 km to Lac du Bonnet’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lac du Bonnet itself is the trip to care.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Lac du Bonnet
How is Lac du Bonnet’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lac du Bonnet’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lac du Bonnet?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Lac du Bonnet’s health region only: 81.3 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Lac du Bonnet from a hospital?
Residents of Lac du Bonnet have a pharmacy 0.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Lac du Bonnet?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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).