Photo: Mennowiki · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Mitchell’s health region
Across the region, life runs to 80.7 years on average: women 82.9, men 78.7, in 2022/2024. For Mitchell itself the measure is access, and it lags: 9.4 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. Mitchell grades B− for health, #142 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,064 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Mitchell
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Mitchell’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 7.9 km. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.1 out of 5, Mitchell sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Deprivation alone, a score of 3.7, would put Mitchell’s region near 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Mitchell 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: #142 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,064 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 2.4 years more here
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Mitchell’s region comes out above the trend.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.7 at 78.3 years of life; Mitchell’s region does better, at 80.7. Among the 10 regions scored most like it, it comes first; their median 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.
Getting to hospital from Mitchell: 9.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Mitchell, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Mitchell travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 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.
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.
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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Mitchell’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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.3%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% of adults against 36% for Manitoba.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
52% 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
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.
Among 40 towns its size, Mitchell is 35th nearest a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (19,512 to 20,377 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North End NS B+ | 19,733 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 2 | Westmount QC A | 20,377 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 3 | Longue-Pointe QC A | 20,337 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 33 | Pelham ON C+ | 19,980 | 8.0 km | 49% |
| 34 | Kanata Lakes ON A | 19,861 | 8.7 km | 56% |
| 35 | Mitchell MB B− | 19,950 | 9.4 km | 51% |
| 36 | Riverside South - Leitrim ON A | 19,802 | 12 km | 56% |
| 37 | Stittsville ON A | 19,753 | 12 km | 56% |
| 40 | Quispamsis NB D | 20,240 | 17 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Mitchell
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mitchell | 9.4 km | 51% | 80.7 | B− |
| Steinbach 7.7 km | 1.4 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
| St-Pierre-Jolys 16 km | 0.5 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
| La Broquerie 17 km | 13 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
| De Salaberry 18 km | 13 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
One health region covers Mitchell and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same. St-Pierre-Jolys is the closest to care, 0.5 km to Mitchell’s 9.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Mitchell shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Mitchell
How far is Mitchell from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Mitchell is 8.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Mitchell?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Mitchell (2022/2024).
How is Mitchell’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Mitchell’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Mitchell?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).