Photo: s.yume from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Around Winkler, 51% of adults call their health very good or excellent
Life expectancy in the region is 80.7 years (82.9 for women, 78.7 for men, 2022/2024). Measured from where Winkler’s residents live, a hospital is 4.6 km away, near the 3.7 km most towns see. Winkler grades B− for health, #132 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,995 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Winkler
More years than its deprivation would give
Winkler’s region beats what its deprivation score of 3.7 predicts: 80.7 years against 78.3. For its deprivation ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Winkler 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: #132 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,995 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.
Deprivation predicts less: the region outlives the trend by 2.4 years
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Winkler’s region, above the line, stands for every town in it.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.7, the expected figure is 78.3 years, and Winkler’s region does better with 80.7. It outlives all 10 of its nearest neighbours on the index, whose median is 78.2.
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.
High blood pressure for 23% of adults in the region, diabetes for 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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 40% 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 4.6 km from the average home in Winkler
Straight-line distances from each part of Winkler, weighted by who lives there.
Winkler is further out than the provincial norm of 3.1 km in Manitoba, and than the typical Canadian town at 3.7 km. 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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 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 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
These four scores average the national quintile of the areas where Winkler’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.
About as many rate their health highly here as in Manitoba: 52% and 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 beats Manitoba as well: 56% very good or excellent to 52%, with 20% facing stressful days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Winkler is 27th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (15,758 to 16,571 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.1 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Toronto ON A | 16,007 | 0.4 km | 50% |
| 2 | Côte-Saint-Paul QC A | 16,403 | 0.5 km | 54% |
| 3 | Saint-Sauveur QC A+ | 16,104 | 0.7 km | 62% |
| 25 | Fairview NS B+ | 16,296 | 3.8 km | 51% |
| 26 | Almonte ON B− | 16,073 | 4.4 km | 51% |
| 27 | Winkler MB B− | 16,156 | 4.6 km | 51% |
| 28 | Old Hunt Club ON A | 16,270 | 4.6 km | 56% |
| 29 | Tracadie NB B− | 16,453 | 4.7 km | 49% |
| 40 | Lavaltrie QC B | 15,996 | 18 km | 56% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Winkler
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Winkler’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Residents of Morden live further from a hospital, at 14 km against 4.6 km in Winkler.
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Winkler shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
Questions about health in Winkler
How is Winkler’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Winkler’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Winkler?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Winkler’s health region only: 82.9 years for women and 78.7 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Winkler from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Winkler is 1.2 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Winkler?
The region trails the typical Canadian town on each of its four survey and life-expectancy figures. Chronic conditions there average 19% across arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure.
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).