Health in Sandy Bay 5 · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Residents of Sandy Bay 5 live 41 km from the nearest hospital on average
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 51%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. A pharmacy is nearer: 41 km on average, with 0.0 within 3 km of the typical home. Sandy Bay 5 is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. The health survey doesn’t interview people living on reserves, so these regional figures describe the surrounding region, not Sandy Bay 5. Sandy Bay 5 grades C for health.
From the average home in Sandy Bay 5, a pharmacy is 41 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
Deprivation runs high
On the index’s situational vulnerability, which follows housing, income and education, Sandy Bay 5’s neighbourhoods average 5.0 out of 5, among the most deprived fifth of the country. The wider area ↓
Living past what deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Sandy Bay 5’s region reaches 80.7. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Sandy Bay 5 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 (19%)Better than 31% of Canadian towns
Smokers (13%)Better than 55% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (80.7)Better than 51% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (41 km)Better than 5% 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.
For its deprivation
Longer lives than deprivation would give: 2.4 years ahead of the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Sandy Bay 5’s region comes out above the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
At 3.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 78.3 years, and the region Sandy Bay 5 belongs to reaches 80.7. 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 care
Pharmacies around Sandy Bay 5: 0.0 within 3 km, the nearest 41 km away
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Sandy Bay 5’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
41 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
41 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
41 km
residents’ average distance
0.0 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
100%
share of residents
Emergency
911
police, fire, ambulance; 811 for health advice in most provinces
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Sandy Bay 5 is on the far side. The clinic list is thin in Manitoba: the facilities database holds few clinics there, so the clinic distance overstates the trip.
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.
80.7
years at birth, 2022/2024
20.3
more years expected at 65
1st
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
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
Residential instability1.9
Economic dependency5.0
Ethno-cultural composition4.4
Situational vulnerability5.0
The index is context and never graded: it describes Sandy Bay 5’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.
Conditions and habits
23% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.3% diabetes
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
23%
Arthritis
21%
Diabetes
8.3%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
12%
Anxiety disorder
15%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
13%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
20%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
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.
Health survey
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% 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
52%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
56%
Mental health fair or poor
14%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
67%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
On mental health the region is ahead of Manitoba, 56% very good or excellent to 52%; 20% describe most days as quite a bit 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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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 Sandy Bay 5’s own.
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Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
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Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
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What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
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Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Sandy Bay 5
How far is Sandy Bay 5 from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 41 km from the average resident of Sandy Bay 5, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How is Sandy Bay 5’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Sandy Bay 5’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town. Being a First Nations reserve, it has no overall grade or ranking, and its regional survey figures come from people living off reserve.
What is the life expectancy in Sandy Bay 5?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Sandy Bay 5’s health region only: 82.9 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
How healthy is Sandy Bay 5?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 19% of adults.