Photo: DrBeetrootCa · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Lorne, 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. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.2 km from the average resident of Lorne, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Lorne a grade of B−, #133 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,025 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Lorne
A long way to a pharmacy
Picking up a prescription in Lorne takes a trip of 28 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Ahead of regions as deprived
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Lorne’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.
Lorne grades B− 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: #133 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,025 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
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Lorne’s region shows above the trend.
At 3.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 78.3 years, and the region Lorne belongs to 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.
The nearest hospital is 7.2 km from the average home in Lorne
Straight-line distances from each part of Lorne, weighted by who lives there.
Lorne is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The centre of population is 11 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 7.2 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
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%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
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
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Lorne’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health beats Manitoba as well: 56% very good or excellent to 52%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Mid-table for hospital distance among towns its size: Lorne comes 22nd of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (2,980 to 3,062 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 6.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tisdale SK C− | 3,052 | 0.7 km | 47% |
| 2 | Princeton BC B+ | 3,050 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 3 | Leslie Park - Bruce Farm ON A+ | 3,056 | 0.9 km | 56% |
| 20 | Hillcrest Management Area SK B+ | 3,004 | 6.1 km | 49% |
| 21 | Albany AB B | 3,015 | 6.1 km | 51% |
| 22 | Lorne MB B− | 3,022 | 7.2 km | 51% |
| 23 | Saint-Anaclet-de-Lessard QC A− | 3,018 | 8.8 km | 60% |
| 24 | Grenville-sur-la-Rouge QC A | 3,040 | 9.1 km | 60% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Lorne alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in Lorne
How is Lorne’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Lorne’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Lorne?
Women in Lorne’s region live to 82.9 on average and men to 78.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Lorne from a hospital?
For everyday care, Lorne’s residents are 28 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Lorne?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share 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).