Photo: Gretnaite · CC BY-SA 4.0Around Rhineland, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Statistics Canada puts the region’s life expectancy at 80.7, women 82.9 and men 78.7 (2022/2024). The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Rhineland’s is long: 11 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. Rhineland grades B− for health, #145 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,082 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Rhineland
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in Rhineland, a pharmacy is 19 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
A long way to hospital
Residents of Rhineland live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (11 km from its centre of population), and 0% are more than 30 km away. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.7 out of 5, Rhineland sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Beating its deprivation on life expectancy
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Rhineland’s region gains years: 80.7 where the trend says 78.3. 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.
Rhineland grades B− 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: #145 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,082 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.
2.4 more years of life than regions as deprived
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Rhineland’s, lies over the trend.
The trend over 102 regions (correlation −0.83) is clear, and Rhineland’s region sits above it: 80.7 years where a score of 3.7 predicts 78.3. 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 to hospital from Rhineland: 11 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Rhineland’s own, not the region’s.
Rhineland is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Rhineland’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.
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% 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
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 40%, the province 36%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to 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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (56% against 52%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Rhineland is 32nd nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 6,658 to 6,984 people, median 4.5 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Perth ON B | 6,972 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 2 | Devon AB B+ | 6,965 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 3 | Old Ottawa South ON A+ | 6,704 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 30 | Industrial ON B− | 6,690 | 8.5 km | 53% |
| 31 | Saint-Honoré QC A | 6,984 | 11 km | 66% |
| 32 | Rhineland MB B− | 6,819 | 11 km | 51% |
| 33 | Harrietsfield NS B | 6,786 | 11 km | 51% |
| 34 | Douglas NB C− | 6,840 | 16 km | 45% |
| 40 | Thunder Bay, Unorganized ON D | 6,831 | 37 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Rhineland
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Rhineland’s regional figures. Residents of Altona live nearer a hospital, at 0.6 km against 11 km in Rhineland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Rhineland shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
Questions about health in Rhineland
How is Rhineland’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Rhineland: 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 Rhineland from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Rhineland is 19 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
What is the life expectancy in Rhineland?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Rhineland (2022/2024).
How healthy is Rhineland?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 19%.
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).