Health in Poplar River 16 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Health in Poplar River 16 trails 95% of Canadian towns
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Poplar River 16 live 112 km from a hospital on average, and 100% of them more than 30 km. As a First Nations reserve, Poplar River 16 can be graded for health but gets no overall grade and no place in ranked lists. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Poplar River 16. The Health grade for Poplar River 16 is D.
Manitoba: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Interlake-Eastern Health Region
Chronic conditions
20%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Poplar River 16’s region sits 3.0 years below the typical Canadian town, and those reaching 65 have 20.2 years ahead (2022/2024). The wider area ↓
Far from a hospital
Residents of Poplar River 16 live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (113 km from its centre of population), and 100% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
More smokers
Around Poplar River 16, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
Pharmacies far off
Picking up a prescription in Poplar River 16 takes a trip of 215 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Poplar River 16 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.
Very good or excellent health (50%)Better than 40% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (20%)Better than 19% of Canadian towns
Smokers (17%)Better than 17% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.5)Better than 13% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (112 km)Better than 1% 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.
The wider area
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
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.
78.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.2
more years expected at 65
4th
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
The region comes 4th of 5 in Manitoba, where life expectancy runs from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Getting care
From Poplar River 16, a hospital is 112 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Poplar River 16, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
112 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
230 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
215 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 Poplar River 16 that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
In the region, high blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (9.8%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
29%
Arthritis
30%
Diabetes
9.8%
Obese (self-reported)
43%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
17%
Smoke every day
14%
Heavy drinking
29%
Flu shot in the past year
39%
Manitoba
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 43%, the province 36%. At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
For its deprivation
A region that outlives its deprivation by 0.9 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Poplar River 16’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
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 3.9, Poplar River 16’s region would be expected to reach 77.6 years; it reaches 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. Its towns’ household income, about $84,000, sits above most regions’ while its life expectancy sits below; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 0.14).
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.
Health survey
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% to 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
Health very good or excellent
49%
Health fair or poor
16%
Mental health very good or excellent
49%
Mental health fair or poor
12%
Most days quite a bit stressful
17%
Strong sense of belonging
66%
Satisfied with life
88%
Manitoba
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (49% against 52%), while 17% call most days 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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Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Poplar River 16 alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
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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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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.
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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.
Questions about health in Poplar River 16
How far is Poplar River 16 from a hospital?
For everyday care, Poplar River 16’s residents are 215 km from a pharmacy on average.
What is the life expectancy in Poplar River 16?
Women in Poplar River 16’s region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Poplar River 16’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Poplar River 16: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town. Reserves get no overall grade, and the survey skips them, so these regional figures describe the people around it.
How healthy is Poplar River 16?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.