People in Wasagamack’s health region live to 68.5 on average, 13.0 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 40%, behind the 51% for Manitoba. What sets Wasagamack apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.5 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Wasagamack is a First Nations reserve: a Health grade is possible, an overall grade and a ranking are not. People on reserves are outside the survey’s sample: the figures here are the surrounding region’s, and don’t describe Wasagamack itself. Health gives Wasagamack a grade of D.
What stands out about health in Wasagamack
Life expectancy short of what deprivation predicts
Wasagamack’s region falls short of what its deprivation score of 4.9 predicts: 68.5 years against 74.1. For its deprivation ↓
Fewer people feeling well
Even once age is allowed for, 11.4 points fewer adults here call their health very good or excellent than in the typical town’s region (41% as answered). Health survey ↓
More chronic illness
Arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure are commoner here than in the typical town’s region, even for its ages: 23% report high blood pressure and 14% diabetes. Conditions and habits ↓
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Wasagamack is well above the typical town’s; 9.6% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Wasagamack grades D 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.
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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 5.6 years behind the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Wasagamack’s region sits below the trend line through 102 regions.
Where residents average 4.9 on the index, regions tend to reach 74.1 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Wasagamack belongs to trails at 68.5. Among the 10 regions closest to it on the index, longer lives win out: 9 of the 10, around a median of 77.2 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.
Fewer people rate their health highly here than in Manitoba: 41% 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 weaker than in the province: 44% rate it very good or excellent, against 52% in Manitoba, and 31% find most days quite stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 14%
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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 64% of adults against 36% for Manitoba.
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 1.5 km from the average home in Wasagamack
Straight-line distances from each part of Wasagamack, weighted by who lives there.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Wasagamack is on the near side. 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.
Life expectancy across the 5 health regions in Manitoba
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 has shorter lives than this one; the longest-lived reaches 80.7, a gap of 12.2 years.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Health in the places around Wasagamack
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wasagamack | 1.5 km | 40% | 68.5 | D |
| St. Theresa Point 16 km | 6.8 km | 40% | 68.5 | D |
The table’s survey and life-expectancy columns are one region’s, Wasagamack’s; read across for the hospital trip. Residents of St. Theresa Point live further from a hospital, at 6.8 km against 1.5 km in Wasagamack.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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 Wasagamack’s own.
- 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.
- Adjusted for age. Self-rated health, chronic conditions and smoking enter the grade adjusted to Canada’s adult age mix, though the survey block prints them as people answered.
- 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.
Questions about health in Wasagamack
How healthy is Wasagamack?
On every regional measure, the region does worse than the typical Canadian town. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 22% of adults.
What is the life expectancy in Wasagamack?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Wasagamack’s health region only: 70.5 years for women and 66.9 for men (2022/2024).
How is Wasagamack’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Wasagamack has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town. As a First Nations reserve it gets no overall grade, and the survey doesn’t interview people on reserves, so the regional figures don’t describe it.
How far is Wasagamack from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 329 km from the average resident of Wasagamack, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
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). 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).