Photo: Spark802 · CC BY-SA 4.0Health in Oakbank trails 86% of Canadian towns
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. What sets Oakbank apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 16 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Oakbank is D, #178 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,471 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Oakbank
Shorter lives in the region
Born around Oakbank, a child can expect 3.0 fewer years than in the typical Canadian town’s region; at 65, another 20.2 (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Smoking runs high
The age-standardised smoking rate around Oakbank is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to hospital
Distance is Oakbank’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 17 km. Getting care ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Oakbank, a pharmacy is 16 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
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.
Oakbank grades D 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: #178 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,471 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.
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 4th longest-lived of 5 in Manitoba, on a scale from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Oakbank’s own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.8%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 43% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% 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 to hospital from Oakbank: 16 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Oakbank’s own, not the region’s.
Oakbank is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 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.
The region lives 0.9 years longer than its deprivation predicts
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Oakbank’s region’s dot is above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.9, Oakbank’s region would be expected to reach 77.6 years; it reaches 78.5. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.5 years. Judged by income, around $84,000 a household, the region would look well placed, but income tracks life expectancy only weakly between regions (0.14), and this one lives less long than most.
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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Oakbank is 38th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 17,005 to 17,988 people, median 2.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bay-Cloverhill ON A | 17,591 | 0.3 km | 50% |
| 2 | La Visitation QC A | 17,166 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Petite-Côte QC A | 17,196 | 0.9 km | 54% |
| 36 | Fallingbrook ON A | 17,836 | 13 km | 56% |
| 37 | Saint-Basile-le-Grand QC A− | 17,146 | 13 km | 55% |
| 38 | Oakbank MB D | 17,494 | 16 km | 50% |
| 39 | Lake Country BC B− | 17,637 | 20 km | 52% |
| 40 | Sooke BC A− | 17,248 | 23 km | 55% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Oakbank
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oakbank | 16 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Canterbury Park 11 km | 6.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B |
| Kildare-Redonda 12 km | 5.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B |
| Radisson 13 km | 3.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Victoria West 14 km | 4.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Meadows 14 km | 3.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| East St. Paul 14 km | 7.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B |
Canterbury Park falls in another health region, with a life expectancy of 80.0 against 78.5 here. Meadows is the closest to care, 3.1 km to Oakbank’s 16 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Oakbank alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
Questions about health in Oakbank
What is the life expectancy in Oakbank?
Women in Oakbank’s region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Oakbank’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Oakbank: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Oakbank from a hospital?
For everyday care, Oakbank’s residents are 16 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Oakbank?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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).