Health in Minto-Odanah · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Minto-Odanah: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba’s 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 7.9 km from the average resident of Minto-Odanah, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Minto-Odanah a grade of C+.
Around Minto-Odanah, 10% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Minto-Odanah takes a trip of 24 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Minto-Odanah 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (18%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (7.9 km)Better than 64% of Canadian towns
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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
7.9%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
35%
Manitoba
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 24% to 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 7.9 km from the average home in Minto-Odanah
Straight-line distances from each part of Minto-Odanah, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
7.9 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
39 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
24 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Minto-Odanah 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.
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Minto-Odanah’s region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.5 would be expected to reach 79.0 years, and Minto-Odanah’s region is close, at 78.8. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.9.
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 wider area
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
3rd
longest of 5 regions in Manitoba
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
Southern Health Region80.7
Winnipeg-Churchill Health Region80.0
Prairie Mountain Health Region78.8
Interlake-Eastern Health Region78.5
Northern Health Region68.5
Among the 5 regions in Manitoba, from 68.5 to 80.7 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability1.5
Economic dependency3.0
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability2.5
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Minto-Odanah’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
51% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
85%
Manitoba
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Minto-Odanah
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Minto-Odanah the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital. Residents of Oakview live further from a hospital, at 17 km against 7.9 km in Minto-Odanah.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Minto-Odanah alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in Minto-Odanah
What is the life expectancy in Minto-Odanah?
There is no figure for Minto-Odanah alone; its health region’s is 81.2 for women and 76.6 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Minto-Odanah’s Health Grade worked out?
Not yet: Health will weigh the region’s survey and life expectancy and Minto-Odanah’s distance to a hospital against the typical Canadian town once Canada’s grading run happens.
How far is Minto-Odanah from a hospital?
For everyday care, Minto-Odanah’s residents are 24 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Minto-Odanah?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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