Health in Riverdale · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Lives run shorter around Riverdale: 78.8 years, 2.7 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. Measured from where Riverdale’s residents live, a hospital is 4.0 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Health gives Riverdale a grade of C+.
Manitoba: 51% · Shared with the rest of the Prairie Mountain Health Region: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
Smoking is commoner around Riverdale than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Riverdale takes a trip of 27 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
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
Riverdale 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 (4.0 km)Better than 76% 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.
Conditions and habits
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
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
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
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (24% against 21%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 4.0 km from the average home in Riverdale
Straight-line distances from each part of Riverdale, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
4.0 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
4.0 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
27 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
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Riverdale goes. The centre of population is 0.6 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 4.0 km. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Riverdale’s lies near the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Deprivation explains most of the gap between regions (correlation −0.83 over 102), and Riverdale’s region is a typical case: 78.8 years at a score of 3.5, where the trend says 79.0. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 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
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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.
78.8
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
Among the 5 regions in Manitoba, from 68.5 to 80.7 years, this one is 3rd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.7
Economic dependency2.5
Ethno-cultural composition2.1
Situational vulnerability3.5
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Riverdale’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
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%
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
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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (54% 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.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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. 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.
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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.
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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 Riverdale’s own.
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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.
Questions about health in Riverdale
How is Riverdale’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Riverdale’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Riverdale?
Women in Riverdale’s region live to 81.2 on average and men to 76.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is Riverdale?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 18%.
How far is Riverdale from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 27 km from the average resident of Riverdale, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain