Health in Piney · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Piney live 50 km from the nearest hospital on average
In the health survey, 51% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba’s 51%. A pharmacy is nearer: 69 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Piney grades C for health.
From the average home in Piney, a pharmacy is 69 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Piney’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Outliving the trend for its deprivation
At 80.7 years, Piney’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.
Health Grade
Piney 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 (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 (50 km)Better than 3% 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.
For its deprivation
The region lives 2.4 years longer than its deprivation predicts
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Piney’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
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, Piney’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. No region among the 10 scored most like it does better; they centre on 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 care
Pharmacies around Piney: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 69 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Piney’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
50 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
71 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
69 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Piney that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
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
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Manitoba, 12.2 years ahead of the last at 68.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability3.1
Economic dependency4.6
Ethno-cultural composition2.0
Situational vulnerability5.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Piney’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.
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
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 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
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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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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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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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.
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Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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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 Piney’s own.
Questions about health in Piney
How far is Piney from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 69 km from the average resident of Piney, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Piney’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Piney: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Piney?
Women in Piney’s region live to 82.9 on average and men to 78.7, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Piney?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 19%.
Photo: Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0