Photo: Rob Swystun from Winnipeg, Canada · CC BY 2.0People in Winnipeg Beach’s health region live to 78.5 on average, 3.0 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 50%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is 14 km from the average resident of Winnipeg Beach, further than the usual 3.7 km. The Health grade for Winnipeg Beach is C−.
What stands out about health in Winnipeg Beach
A region that smokes more
The age-standardised smoking rate around Winnipeg Beach is well above the typical town’s; 14% of adults are daily smokers. Conditions and habits ↓
Far from a hospital
Distance is Winnipeg Beach’s own health question: 0% of residents live beyond 30 km of a hospital, and the trip from its centre is 14 km. Getting care ↓
No pharmacy close by
The nearest pharmacy on OpenStreetMap is 24 km from the average home in Winnipeg Beach, so prescriptions mean a drive. Getting care ↓
A heavier load of 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 ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Winnipeg Beach 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (29%) and diabetes (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
Obesity runs higher than in the province, at 43% of adults against 36% for Manitoba. Heavy drinking runs above the province, 29% to 21%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
From Winnipeg Beach, a hospital is 14 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Winnipeg Beach’s own, not the region’s.
Compared with 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Winnipeg Beach is on the far 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.
0.9 years above the line for regions this deprived
Compared region with region (102 health regions, each figure shared by all its towns); Winnipeg Beach’s region is above the line.
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 Winnipeg Beach’s region does better with 78.5. Half the 10 regions scored most like it do better (5) and half worse (5), around a median of 78.5. Households here earn around $84,000, more than in most regions, but the region still lives less long than most; across regions income barely tracks life expectancy (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.
Longest and shortest lives among the 5 regions in Manitoba
Regional life expectancy in Manitoba, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This region is 4th longest-lived of 5 in Manitoba, on a scale from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Higher means more deprived: the bars average the quintiles of the areas Winnipeg Beach’s residents live in, and none of them counts toward Health.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
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.
Health in the places around Winnipeg Beach
The places around, with the distance to a hospital and their regions’ figures. Tap a town for its health page.
The neighbours all sit in Winnipeg Beach’s health region, which is why their regional columns are identical. Gimli is the closest to care, 5.0 km to Winnipeg Beach’s 14 km.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Winnipeg Beach itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- 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 Winnipeg Beach
What is the life expectancy in Winnipeg Beach?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Winnipeg Beach’s health region only: 81.3 years for women and 76.0 for men (2022/2024).
How far is Winnipeg Beach from a hospital?
Residents of Winnipeg Beach have a pharmacy 24 km away on average, in a straight line.
How is Winnipeg Beach’s Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Winnipeg Beach has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
How healthy is Winnipeg Beach?
All four of the region’s figures sit on the less healthy side of the typical Canadian town’s. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 20% of adults.
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).