Photo: J Hazard · CC BY-SA 3.0Lives run shorter around Powerview-Pine Falls: 78.5 years, 3.0 below the typical Canadian town’s region
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. What sets Powerview-Pine Falls apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 0.7 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Powerview-Pine Falls grades C for health.
What stands out about health in Powerview-Pine Falls
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Powerview-Pine Falls is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A heavier load of illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 9.8%. Conditions and habits ↓
Harder circumstances
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Powerview-Pine Falls at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
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.
Powerview-Pine Falls 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.
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.
29% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% 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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 29% to the province’s 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
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
The region comes 4th of 5 in Manitoba, where life expectancy runs 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 Powerview-Pine Falls’ own areas.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
0.9 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Powerview-Pine Falls’ dot is marked, above the line.
The line through 102 regions (correlation −0.83) puts a deprivation score of 3.9 at 77.6 years of life; Powerview-Pine Falls’ region does better, at 78.5. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.5 years. 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.
Getting to hospital from Powerview-Pine Falls: 0.7 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Powerview-Pine Falls’ own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Powerview-Pine Falls is on the near side. 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.
49% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
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.
Health in the places around Powerview-Pine Falls
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Powerview-Pine Falls | 0.7 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
| Alexander 5.0 km | 22 km | 50% | 78.5 | D |
| Fort Alexander 3 6.2 km | 6.7 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Powerview-Pine Falls’ regional figures. Alexander is the furthest from care, 22 km to Powerview-Pine Falls’ 0.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Powerview-Pine Falls alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
Questions about health in Powerview-Pine Falls
What is the life expectancy in Powerview-Pine Falls?
Women in Powerview-Pine Falls’ region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Powerview-Pine Falls?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How far is Powerview-Pine Falls from a hospital?
For everyday care, Powerview-Pine Falls’ residents are 0.8 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is Powerview-Pine Falls’ Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Powerview-Pine Falls’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
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).