Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around North Norfolk, 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). What sets North Norfolk apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 9.1 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives North Norfolk a grade of B−, #138 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,057 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in North Norfolk
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in North Norfolk takes a trip of 31 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 80.7 years, North Norfolk’s region outlives the 78.3 that regions scoring 3.7 on the index typically reach. 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.
North Norfolk 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: #138 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,057 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
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for North Norfolk’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
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, North Norfolk’s 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.
From North Norfolk, a hospital is 9.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is North Norfolk’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of North Norfolk 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 centre of population is 0.3 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 9.1 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.
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
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 40%, the province 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
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
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
The index is context and never graded: it describes North Norfolk’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 56% 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.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: North Norfolk comes 26th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,020 to 4,148 people, median 6.6 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | McCauley AB B+ | 4,060 | 0.5 km | 51% |
| 2 | Swan River MB B− | 4,048 | 0.7 km | 51% |
| 3 | Centremount ON B | 4,053 | 0.8 km | 53% |
| 24 | Fort Nelson BC C | 4,144 | 8.1 km | 43% |
| 25 | Morris-Turnberry ON B | 4,028 | 8.2 km | 45% |
| 26 | North Norfolk MB B− | 4,084 | 9.1 km | 51% |
| 27 | Sainte-Anne-des-Lacs QC A | 4,080 | 11 km | 60% |
| 28 | L'Ange-Gardien QC A+ | 4,106 | 13 km | 62% |
| 40 | Mistissini QC | 4,067 | 66 km | – |
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
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for North Norfolk itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
Questions about health in North Norfolk
How is North Norfolk’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so North Norfolk has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is North Norfolk from a hospital?
Residents of North Norfolk have a pharmacy 31 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in North Norfolk?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around North Norfolk (2022/2024).
How healthy is North Norfolk?
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).