Photo: Bluejaywpg · Public domainExpect 78.5 years of life in the region around Stony Mountain, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 50% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba’s 51%. Measured from where Stony Mountain’s residents live, the nearest hospital is 8.7 km away, beyond the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Stony Mountain is C−, #173 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,405 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Stony Mountain
Smoking runs high
Smoking is commoner around Stony Mountain than in the typical Canadian town’s region, and 14% of adults smoke every day. Conditions and habits ↓
More chronic illness
For its ages, the region carries more long-term illness than most: high blood pressure for 29% of adults, diabetes for 9.8%. 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.
Stony Mountain 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: #173 of 185 in Manitoba and #2,405 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.
29% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 9.8% diabetes
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
At 43%, self-reported obesity is above Manitoba’s 36%. Heavy drinking is commoner too (29% against 21%).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Deprivation would predict shorter lives: 0.9 years more here
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Stony Mountain’s region shows above the trend.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.9, the expected figure is 77.6 years, and Stony Mountain’s region does better with 78.5. The 10 regions closest to it on the index split evenly around it, 5 above and 5 below; their median is 78.5 years. 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.
From Stony Mountain, a hospital is 8.7 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Stony Mountain’s own, not the region’s.
From Stony Mountain that is further than the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba, and the 3.7 km of the typical Canadian town. 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.
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.
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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Stony Mountain’s own areas.
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: Stony Mountain comes 34th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 9,016 to 9,357 people, median 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Central SK B+ | 9,124 | 0.7 km | 49% |
| 2 | Booth MB B+ | 9,016 | 0.9 km | 52% |
| 3 | Downtown Commercial Core AB A+ | 9,286 | 1.0 km | 56% |
| 32 | Portugal Cove-St. Philip's NL B− | 9,167 | 8.6 km | 54% |
| 33 | Boischatel QC A+ | 9,250 | 8.7 km | 62% |
| 34 | Stony Mountain MB C− | 9,180 | 8.7 km | 50% |
| 35 | Beaver Bank NS B | 9,157 | 9.0 km | 51% |
| 36 | L'Épiphanie QC B+ | 9,254 | 14 km | 56% |
| 40 | Kimberley BC B− | 9,037 | 24 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Stony Mountain
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stony Mountain | 8.7 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
| Stonewall 11 km | 0.7 km | 50% | 78.5 | C |
| St. Andrews 18 km | 12 km | 50% | 78.5 | C− |
Every place around Stony Mountain shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs. Stonewall is the closest to care, 0.7 km to Stony Mountain’s 8.7 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Stony Mountain shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
Questions about health in Stony Mountain
How is Stony Mountain’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 Stony Mountain’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Stony Mountain?
Women in Stony Mountain’s region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Stony Mountain from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Stony Mountain is 8.3 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Stony Mountain?
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 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).