Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainAround Stanley, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Across the region, life runs to 80.7 years on average: women 82.9, men 78.7, in 2022/2024. The town’s own part is the trip to care, and Stanley’s is long: 8.0 km to a hospital on average, against 3.7 km typical. The Health grade for Stanley is B−, #134 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,034 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stanley
Deprivation runs high
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Stanley at 4.4 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Longer lives than its deprivation predicts
For a deprivation score of 3.7, the trend across regions gives 78.3 years of life; Stanley’s region reaches 80.7. 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.
Stanley grades B− 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: #134 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,034 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.
2.4 years above the line for regions this deprived
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Stanley’s region’s dot is above the line.
At 3.7 on the index, the trend across 102 regions (correlation −0.83) points to 78.3 years, and the region Stanley belongs to reaches 80.7. None of the 10 regions closest to it on the index lives longer; their middle figure is 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.
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
Top of the 5 regions in Manitoba: the lowest figure is 68.5, 12.2 years below the highest.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Stanley’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.
In the region, high blood pressure (23%) and diabetes (8.3%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
Habits · 2023/2024
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Manitoba (36%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The nearest hospital is 8.0 km from the average home in Stanley
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Stanley’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Stanley is on the far side. The centre of population is 0.5 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 8.0 km. 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.
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 52% to 52%
How adults in the health region answered the survey, not adjusted for age; the tick marks the province.
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health looks better than in the province too: 56% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 20% find most days quite 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: Stanley comes 31st of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,787 to 10,075 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lac-des-Fées QC B+ | 10,075 | 0.5 km | 55% |
| 2 | South Cambie BC A+ | 9,846 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Vincent ON B | 10,011 | 1.1 km | 53% |
| 29 | Mono ON B | 10,036 | 7.1 km | 51% |
| 30 | Beckwith ON B− | 10,073 | 7.2 km | 51% |
| 31 | Stanley MB B− | 9,929 | 8.0 km | 51% |
| 32 | Wiarton ON C+ | 9,799 | 8.2 km | 48% |
| 33 | Elizabethtown-Kitley ON B− | 9,886 | 8.3 km | 51% |
| 40 | Shediac NB C | 9,849 | 24 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stanley
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Stanley’s regional figures. Morden is the furthest from care, 14 km to Stanley’s 8.0 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. Not everyone is in the survey’s sample: reserves, the Canadian Forces, institutions and two northern Québec regions are left out.
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Stanley itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in Stanley
How is Stanley’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Stanley has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Stanley from a hospital?
Residents of Stanley have a pharmacy 7.2 km away on average, in a straight line.
What is the life expectancy in Stanley?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.9 for women, 78.7 for men around Stanley (2022/2024).
How healthy is Stanley?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than 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).