Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainExpect 78.5 years of life in the region around West Interlake, 3.0 under the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 50% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). Closer to home, a hospital is 5.0 km from the average resident of West Interlake, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for West Interlake is C−.
What stands out about health in West Interlake
Smoking runs high
Around West Interlake, 14% of adults smoke daily, part of a smoking rate higher than most Canadian towns’ regions. Conditions and habits ↓
A long way to a pharmacy
From the average home in West Interlake, a pharmacy is 51 km away, a longer trip than most Canadians make for medicine. Getting care ↓
More chronic illness
High blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (9.8%) push the region’s chronic-condition figure above the typical Canadian town’s. Conditions and habits ↓
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 4.8 out of 5, West Interlake sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
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.
West Interlake 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.
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.
High blood pressure for 29% of adults in the region, diabetes for 9.8%
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
Self-reported obesity, 43%, tops Manitoba (36%). More adults drink heavily, 29% 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.
From West Interlake, a hospital is 5.0 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of West Interlake, 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, West Interlake is on the far side. The centre of population is 8.6 km from a hospital, but spread-out homes take the residents’ average to 5.0 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.
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
Ranked 4th 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where West Interlake’s residents live; they carry no weight in the grade.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Longer-lived than its deprivation suggests, by 0.9 years
One dot per health region, 102 in all, since life expectancy and the index are published for regions; West Interlake’s dot is marked, above the line.
Across Canada’s 102 health regions, life expectancy falls as deprivation rises (correlation −0.83). For a region whose residents average 3.9 on the index, the line expects 77.6 years; West Interlake’s region reaches 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. A household income of about $84,000, high for a region, doesn’t come with longer lives here; across regions the two barely move together (correlation 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.
Self-rated health trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent, against 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Mental health trails Manitoba: 49% very good or excellent to 52%, with 17% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for West Interlake itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
Questions about health in West Interlake
How is West Interlake’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 West Interlake’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in West Interlake?
Women in West Interlake’s region live to 81.3 on average and men to 76.0, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How healthy is West Interlake?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, is 20%.
How far is West Interlake from a hospital?
Residents of West Interlake have a pharmacy 51 km away on average, in a straight line.
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).