Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domain51% of adults around Roland rate their health very good or excellent
People in the region live to 80.7 on average: 82.9 for women and 78.7 for men in 2022/2024. What sets Roland apart within its region is a longer trip to hospital, 17 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Health gives Roland a grade of C+.
What stands out about health in Roland
Hospital care at a distance
Distance is Roland’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 15 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
Picking up a prescription in Roland takes a trip of 16 km on average to the nearest mapped pharmacy. Getting care ↓
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Roland at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
At 80.7 years, Roland’s region outlives the 78.3 that regions scoring 3.7 on the index typically reach. 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.
Roland 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.
A region that outlives its deprivation by 2.4 years
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Roland’s region sits above the trend line through 102 regions.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.7, the expected figure is 78.3 years, and Roland’s region does better with 80.7. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 78.2.
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 Roland: 17 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Roland, weighted by who lives there.
Roland is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 5 regions in Manitoba, 12.2 years ahead of the last at 68.5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Roland’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
Long-term conditions and habits as the region’s adults reported them; the tick marks the province.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
At 40%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 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%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
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.
Health in the places around Roland
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Roland | 17 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
| Carman 16 km | 1.1 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
Every place around Roland shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Carman is the closest to care, 1.1 km to Roland’s 17 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Roland’s own.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Roland
How is Roland’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Roland has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Roland from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 16 km from the average resident of Roland, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Roland?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Roland’s health region only: 82.9 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Roland?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share 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).