Photo: Mennowiki · CC BY-SA 4.051% of adults around Steinbach rate their health very good or excellent
The region’s 2022/2024 life expectancy is 80.7, with women at 82.9 and men at 78.7. What sets Steinbach apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.4 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). The Health grade for Steinbach is B, #130 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,931 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Steinbach
More years than its deprivation would give
Set against regions as deprived (3.7), Steinbach’s region gains years: 80.7 where the trend says 78.3. For its deprivation ↓
A hospital close by
The hospital is close for almost everyone in Steinbach: 0.6 km from its centre of population. Getting care ↓
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.
Steinbach 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: #130 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,931 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 more years of life than regions as deprived
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; Steinbach’s dot is marked, above the line.
Ranked from least to most deprived on Statistics Canada’s index, regions see lives shorten along the way (correlation −0.83, 102 regions). Scored 3.7, Steinbach’s region would be expected to reach 78.3 years; it reaches 80.7. It tops the 10 regions closest to it on the index, which centre on 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.
Getting to hospital from Steinbach: 1.4 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Steinbach, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Steinbach 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. 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.
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
More adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 40%, the province 36%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
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.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
No region of the 5 in Manitoba lives longer than this one; the shortest-lived reaches 68.5, a gap of 12.2 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Steinbach’s bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
52% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (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
More adults here report very good or excellent mental health than across Manitoba (56% 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.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Steinbach comes 11th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (21,267 to 22,162 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 2.3 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Parkdale ON A | 21,663 | 0.5 km | 50% |
| 2 | East L'Amoreaux ON A | 21,533 | 0.6 km | 50% |
| 3 | Englemount-Lawrence ON A | 21,455 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 9 | Petite-Bourgogne QC A | 21,834 | 1.3 km | 54% |
| 10 | Black Creek ON A | 21,307 | 1.3 km | 50% |
| 11 | Steinbach MB B | 21,671 | 1.4 km | 51% |
| 12 | Tillsonburg ON B− | 21,450 | 1.5 km | 49% |
| 13 | Ile-des-Soeurs QC A | 21,568 | 1.5 km | 54% |
| 40 | South Frontenac ON B− | 21,599 | 22 km | 53% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Steinbach
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steinbach | 1.4 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
| Mitchell 7.7 km | 9.4 km | 51% | 80.7 | B− |
| La Broquerie 10 km | 13 km | 51% | 80.7 | C+ |
| Ste. Anne 16 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 80.7 | B |
| Ste. Anne 18 km | 8.6 km | 51% | 80.7 | B− |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Steinbach from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does. La Broquerie is the furthest from care, 13 km to Steinbach’s 1.4 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Steinbach shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. The grade’s three survey shares are age-standardised to Canada’s adults, so an older region isn’t marked down for age alone, while the survey charts show answers as given.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about health in Steinbach
How is Steinbach’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Steinbach’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Steinbach?
There is no figure for Steinbach alone; its health region’s is 82.9 for women and 78.7 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Steinbach from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Steinbach is 1.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Steinbach?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).