Around Long Plain 6, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
A baby born in the region can expect 80.7 years, 82.9 for a girl and 78.7 for a boy (2022/2024). Closer to home, a hospital is 17 km from the average resident of Long Plain 6, further than the usual 3.7 km. As a First Nations reserve, Long Plain 6 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Long Plain 6 itself. Long Plain 6 grades C+ for health.
What stands out about health in Long Plain 6
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in Long Plain 6 the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 19 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 17 km from the average home in Long Plain 6, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Long Plain 6 at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Long Plain 6’s region gains years: 80.7 where the trend says 78.3. For its deprivation ↓
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.
Long Plain 6 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.4 years
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Long Plain 6’s region’s dot is above the line.
At 3.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 78.3 years, and the region Long Plain 6 belongs to reaches 80.7. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 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.
From Long Plain 6, a hospital is 17 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Long Plain 6, weighted by who lives there.
Long Plain 6 is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
What Statistics Canada publishes above the town: life expectancy for each health region in Manitoba, and the deprivation index for the town’s own areas.
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
This is the one part of the block measured for Long Plain 6 itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% diabetes
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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (56% against 52%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Long Plain 6
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Long Plain 6 | 17 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
| Portage la Prairie 19 km | 1.6 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
Long Plain 6 and all of these places belong to one health region: the regional figures repeat, the hospital distances don’t. Portage la Prairie is the closest to care, 1.6 km to Long Plain 6’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Long Plain 6 alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Long Plain 6
How far is Long Plain 6 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Long Plain 6’s residents are 17 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Long Plain 6’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Long Plain 6’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
What is the life expectancy in Long Plain 6?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Long Plain 6’s health region only: 82.9 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Long Plain 6?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).