Health in Prairie Lakes · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Prairie Lakes is 78.8 years, 2.7 less than for the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 51% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 19 km from the average resident of Prairie Lakes, further than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Prairie Lakes a grade of C.
For 0% of homes in Prairie Lakes the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 21 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Prairie Lakes is well above the typical town’s; 10% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Prairie Lakes, a pharmacy is 24 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Prairie Lakes 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 (18%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (19 km)Better than 27% 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 19 km from the average home in Prairie Lakes
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Prairie Lakes’ own, not the region’s.
Hospital
19 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
24 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
24 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
0%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
From Prairie Lakes 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 (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
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
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
7.9%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
35%
Manitoba
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 24% 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.
For its deprivation
Level with regions as deprived, give or take a few months
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Prairie Lakes’ region shows close to the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.5 on the index, regions tend to reach 79.0 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions), and the one Prairie Lakes belongs to reaches 78.8. Among its 10 nearest neighbours on the index it sits mid-table: 5 above, 5 below, a median of 78.9 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.
The wider area
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
3rd
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
Of the 5 health regions in Manitoba, 3rd place goes to this one, between a low of 68.5 and a high of 80.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency3.5
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability3.4
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Prairie Lakes’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 51% and 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
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
85%
Manitoba
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 54% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 20% find most days quite 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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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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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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What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
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Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
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Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
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Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Prairie Lakes itself is the trip to care.
Questions about health in Prairie Lakes
How far is Prairie Lakes from a hospital?
Residents of Prairie Lakes have a pharmacy 24 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Prairie Lakes?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Prairie Lakes’ health region only: 81.2 years for women and 76.6 for men (2022/2024).
How is Prairie Lakes’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Prairie Lakes’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Prairie Lakes?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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