Health in Morris · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
51% of adults around Morris rate their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.7 years (82.9 for women, 78.7 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Morris apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Morris is B.
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 29 km from the average home in Morris, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Morris at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
Regions scoring 3.7 on the deprivation index typically live 78.3 years; Morris’ region, at 80.7, does better. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Morris 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.
Very good or excellent health (51%)Better than 48% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (19%)Better than 31% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.7)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (0.5 km)Better than almost every Canadian town
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.
For its deprivation
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.4 years ahead of the trend
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Morris’ lies above the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Morris’ region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. Of the 10 regions with the nearest deprivation scores, not one does as well; half fall below 78.2.
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 care
From Morris, a hospital is 0.5 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Morris, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
0.5 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
30 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
29 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
Morris is closer in 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.
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.
80.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
1st
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
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
Residential instability3.3
Economic dependency3.3
Ethno-cultural composition2.6
Situational vulnerability5.0
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Morris’ 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.
Conditions and habits
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% diabetes
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
20%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 52% to 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Health very good or excellent
52%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
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.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Morris
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Morris’; read across for the hospital trip. Morris is the furthest from care, 15 km to Morris’ 0.5 km.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
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Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Morris’ own.
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
Questions about health in Morris
What is the life expectancy in Morris?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Morris (2022/2024).
How is Morris’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Morris’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Morris from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 29 km from the average resident of Morris, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Morris?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.
Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY 3.0