Photo: Jasonbook99 · CC BY-SA 4.0Lakeshore’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 2.7 years: life expectancy 78.8
On self-rated health the region tracks the province: 51% very good or excellent, 51% for Manitoba. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Lakeshore’s is long: 28 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Health gives Lakeshore a grade of C−.
What stands out about health in Lakeshore
Far from a hospital
Residents of Lakeshore live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (25 km from its centre of population), and 24% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Lakeshore than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Lakeshore takes a trip of 20 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.2 out of 5, Lakeshore sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
Lakeshore 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.
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.
Getting to hospital from Lakeshore: 28 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Lakeshore’s own, not the region’s.
Lakeshore is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
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.
24% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 7.9% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 24% to the province’s 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Ranked 3rd of 5 in Manitoba: the regions span 68.5 to 80.7 years at birth.
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 Lakeshore’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Lakeshore’s, follows the trend.
Use the deprivation index alone and Lakeshore’s region, at 3.5, should live about 79.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 78.8, near enough. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.9 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.
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (52%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 54% 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.
Health in the places around Lakeshore
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore | 28 km | 51% | 78.8 | C− |
| Ste. Rose 15 km | 29 km | 51% | 78.8 | C− |
Same region, same survey: Lakeshore’s neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Lakeshore itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Lakeshore
How far is Lakeshore from a hospital?
Residents of Lakeshore have a pharmacy 20 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Lakeshore’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Lakeshore: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lakeshore?
Women in Lakeshore’s region live to 81.2 on average and men to 76.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Lakeshore?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
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).