Photo: Shahnoor Habib Munmun · CC BY 3.0St. Andrews’ region trails the typical Canadian town by 3.0 years: life expectancy 78.5
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 50% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Measured from where St. Andrews’ residents live, the nearest hospital is 12 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for St. Andrews is C−, #175 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,443 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in St. Andrews
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around St. Andrews than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
For 0% of homes in St. Andrews the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 7.4 km. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 29% report high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
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.
St. Andrews 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. Its place: #175 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,443 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.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.8%
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
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 43%, the province 36%. At 29%, heavy drinking beats the provincial 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Getting to hospital from St. Andrews: 12 km on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is St. Andrews’ own, not the region’s.
From St. Andrews that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
0.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and St. Andrews’ region shows above the trend.
Measured against 102 regions, more deprivation means shorter lives, and steadily so (correlation −0.83). St. Andrews’ region, at 3.9, outlives the trend’s 77.6 years with 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. A household income of about $84,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 0.14).
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.
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
Of the 5 health regions in Manitoba, 4th place goes to this one, between a low of 68.5 and a high of 80.7.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas St. Andrews’ residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 49% to 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Fewer adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (49% against 52%), while 17% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Further from a hospital than most towns its size: St. Andrews comes 30th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,740 to 12,304 people, median 8.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Weyburn SK C− | 11,871 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 3 | Nelson BC A | 12,126 | 1.3 km | 55% |
| 28 | L'Île-Perrot QC A− | 11,921 | 12 km | 55% |
| 29 | Moncton NB C+ | 12,238 | 12 km | 43% |
| 30 | St. Andrews MB C− | 12,021 | 12 km | 50% |
| 31 | Grey Highlands ON C+ | 12,148 | 13 km | 48% |
| 32 | St. Clements MB C− | 12,029 | 13 km | 50% |
| 40 | Mont-Tremblant QC A− | 11,879 | 25 km | 60% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around St. Andrews
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| St. Andrews | 12 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Selkirk 8.1 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
| St. Clements 10 km | 13 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Stony Mountain 18 km | 8.7 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| West St. Paul 19 km | 7.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B |
Not every neighbour shares the region: West St. Paul’s life expectancy is 80.0, this region’s 78.5. Residents of Selkirk live nearer a hospital, at 1.9 km against 12 km in St. Andrews.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for St. Andrews itself is the trip to care.
- 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 St. Andrews
How is St. Andrews’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so St. Andrews has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in St. Andrews?
There is no figure for St. Andrews alone; its health region’s is 81.3 for women and 76.0 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is St. Andrews from a hospital?
Residents of St. Andrews have a pharmacy 12 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is St. Andrews?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
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).