Health in Ste. Rose · CCHS 2023/2024, Statistics Canada
Life expectancy around Ste. Rose is 78.8 years, 2.7 less than for the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 51% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). For Ste. Rose itself, the measure is access: 29 km to the nearest hospital on average, with 81% of homes beyond 30 km. Health gives Ste. Rose a grade of C−.
Manitoba: 51% · Area-wide: very good or excellent health, chronic conditions, smokers and life expectancy, counted over the Prairie Mountain Health Region
Chronic conditions
18%
arthritis, diabetes, high blood pressure: average share
For 81% of homes in Ste. Rose the nearest hospital is over 30 km off; from the town’s centre of population it is 32 km. Getting care ↓
A region that smokes more
Smoking is commoner around Ste. Rose than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 10% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
Deprivation runs high
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Ste. Rose sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Health Grade
Ste. Rose 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 (18%)Better than 42% of Canadian towns
Smokers (15%)Better than 35% of Canadian towns
Life expectancy (78.8)Better than 22% of Canadian towns
Distance to a hospital (29 km)Better than 11% 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.
Getting care
From Ste. Rose, a hospital is 29 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Ste. Rose’s own, not the region’s.
Hospital
29 km
residents’ average distance
the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km
Clinic
74 km
community health centre or clinic, residents’ average
Pharmacy
4.4 km
residents’ average distance
0.6 within 3 km of a typical home
More than 30 km from a hospital
81%
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, Ste. Rose is on the far side. Few clinics are listed in Manitoba, so the distance to one reads longer than it is.
In the region, high blood pressure (24%) and diabetes (7.9%)
What the survey finds on conditions, weight and habits for the region, the province as the tick.
Conditions and weight · 2023/2024
High blood pressure
24%
Arthritis
24%
Diabetes
7.9%
Obese (self-reported)
40%
Mood disorder
14%
Anxiety disorder
16%
Habits · 2023/2024
Smoke daily or now and then
15%
Smoke every day
10%
Heavy drinking
24%
Flu shot in the past year
35%
Manitoba
Self-reported obesity, 40%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 24% to the province’s 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
The wider area
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.
78.8
years at birth, 2022/2024
19.8
more years expected at 65
3rd
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
Ranked 3rd of 5 in Manitoba: the regions span 68.5 to 80.7 years at birth.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Residential instability2.5
Economic dependency4.8
Ethno-cultural composition1.2
Situational vulnerability5.0
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Ste. Rose’s 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.
For its deprivation
Life expectancy close to where deprivation puts it, a shade under
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Ste. Rose’s, follows the trend.
Situational vulnerability: residents’ average quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprivedLife expectancy at birth (years)
Use the deprivation index alone and Ste. Rose’s region, at 3.5, should live about 79.0 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 78.8, near enough. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.9 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.
Health survey
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 51% 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
Health very good or excellent
51%
Health fair or poor
13%
Mental health very good or excellent
54%
Mental health fair or poor
15%
Most days quite a bit stressful
20%
Strong sense of belonging
70%
Satisfied with life
85%
Manitoba
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (54% against 52%), while 20% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Neighbours
Health in the places around Ste. Rose
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
Around Ste. Rose the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
How to read these numbers
What this data can and can’t tell you
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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.
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Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
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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.
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What counts as a hospital. Hospitals and clinics come from Statistics Canada’s facilities database, built from provincial lists of different dates, and a listed hospital may have no emergency department.
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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 Ste. Rose’s own.
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Distances are straight lines. A straight line from each neighbourhood’s centre to the nearest facility, weighted by who lives there, is shorter than any drive.
Questions about health in Ste. Rose
How far is Ste. Rose from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 4.4 km from the average resident of Ste. Rose, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
What is the life expectancy in Ste. Rose?
Women in Ste. Rose’s region live to 81.2 on average and men to 76.6, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How is Ste. Rose’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Ste. Rose has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Ste. Rose?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Chronic conditions there average 18% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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