Photo: Umbra Lab, Inc. · CC BY 4.0Life expectancy around St. Clements is 78.5 years, 3.0 less than for the typical Canadian town
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Manitoba, 50% against 51%. For St. Clements itself the measure is access, and it lags: 13 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for St. Clements is C−, #176 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,453 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in St. Clements
More smokers
Smoking is commoner around St. Clements than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Hospital care at a distance
Residents of St. Clements live much further from a hospital than in the typical Canadian town (3.0 km from its centre of population), and 6% are more than 30 km away. 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. Clements 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: #176 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,453 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 43% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
From St. Clements, a hospital is 13 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is St. Clements’ own, not the region’s.
Residents of St. Clements travel further than most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Homes are spread out: from the town’s centre of population the hospital is 3.0 km, while the average resident is 13 km away. 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.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 0.9 years more here
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; St. Clements’ region’s dot is above the line.
Use the deprivation index alone and St. Clements’ region, at 3.9, should live about 77.6 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. Income would point the wrong way: households in the region’s towns earn about $84,000, more than in most regions, yet lives here are shorter than in most (across regions, income and life expectancy correlate at just 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health 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
Life expectancy in Manitoba runs from 68.5 to 80.7; this region sits 4th of the 5.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes St. Clements’ 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.
49% 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
Mental health looks weaker than in the province: 49% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 17% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
St. Clements is 33rd of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 11,782 to 12,317 people, median 7.2 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% |
| 31 | St. Andrews MB C− | 12,021 | 12 km | 50% |
| 32 | Grey Highlands ON C+ | 12,148 | 13 km | 48% |
| 33 | St. Clements MB C− | 12,029 | 13 km | 50% |
| 34 | Marieville QC A− | 11,910 | 14 km | 55% |
| 35 | Martensville SK B | 11,808 | 15 km | 49% |
| 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. Clements
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. Clements | 13 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Selkirk 3.7 km | 1.9 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
| St. Andrews 10 km | 12 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Brokenhead 16 km | 9.9 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
Same region, same survey: St. Clements’ neighbours differ only in how far they are from a hospital. Selkirk is the closest to care, 1.9 km to St. Clements’ 13 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Adjusted for age. Standardising for age lets a retirement region and a young one be set side by side; the charts keep the raw answers, the grade the standardised ones.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to St. Clements alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
Questions about health in St. Clements
What is the life expectancy in St. Clements?
Statistics Canada publishes it for St. Clements’ health region only: 81.3 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is St. Clements from a hospital?
For everyday care, St. Clements’ residents are 12 km from a pharmacy on average.
How is St. Clements’ Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus St. Clements’ own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is St. Clements?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. 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).