Health in Snow Lake · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Snow Lake’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 13.0 years: life expectancy 68.5
Adults here are less upbeat about their health than the province: 40% very good or excellent, against 51% in Manitoba. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.1 km from the average resident of Snow Lake, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Snow Lake grades D for health.
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Snow Lake’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 4.9 predicts: 68.5 years against 74.1. For its deprivation ↓
Self-rated health runs low
Even once age is allowed for, 11.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (41% as answered). Health survey ↓
Long-term conditions run high
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 23% of adults, diabetes for 14%. Conditions and habits ↓
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Snow Lake than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 9.6% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Snow Lake grades D 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 (40%)Better than 3% of Canadian towns
Chronic conditions (22%)Better than 2% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 26% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (68.5)Better than 0% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (2.1 km)Better than 85% 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
Behind regions as deprived by 5.6 years of life
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Snow Lake’s dot is marked, under the line.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 4.9, the expected figure is 74.1 years, and Snow Lake’s region falls below with 68.5. Narrow the field to the 10 regions most like it on deprivation and 9 still live longer, with 77.2 years in the middle.
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.
Health survey
41% in the region call their health very good or excellent, fewer than in 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
Health very good or excellent
41%
Health fair or poor
19%
Mental health very good or excellent
44%
Mental health fair or poor
24%
Most days quite a bit stressful
31%
Strong sense of belonging
60%
Satisfied with life
87%
Manitoba
On mental health the region is behind Manitoba, 44% very good or excellent to 52%; 31% 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.
Conditions and habits
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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
27%
Diabetes
14%
Obese (self-reported)
64%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
16%
Smoke every day
9.6%
Heavy drinking
22%
Flu shot in the past year
34%
Manitoba
At 64%, 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.
Getting care
The nearest hospital is 2.1 km from the average home in Snow Lake
Straight-line distances from each part of Snow Lake, weighted by who lives there.
Hospital
2.1 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
74 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
272 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
Residents of Snow Lake are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. 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
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.
68.5
years at birth, 2022/2024
16.5
more years expected at 65
5th
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 has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 80.7, a gap of 12.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.6
Economic dependency1.6
Ethno-cultural composition1.0
Situational vulnerability4.4
This is the one part of the block measured for Snow Lake itself, and it sets the scene rather than feeding the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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 Snow Lake’s own.
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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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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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Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
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Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
Questions about health in Snow Lake
How healthy is Snow Lake?
Self-rated health, chronic conditions, smoking and life expectancy all come out behind the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 22% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Snow Lake?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Snow Lake’s health region only: 70.5 years for women and 66.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Snow Lake’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Snow Lake has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Snow Lake from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 272 km from the average resident of Snow Lake, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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