Photo: Amakuha · CC BY 4.0Expect 80.0 years of life in the region around Brooklands, 1.5 under the typical Canadian town
Across the region, 52% of adults say their health is very good or excellent, much as in Manitoba (51%). For Brooklands itself the measure is access: 3.1 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. The Health grade for Brooklands is B+, #72 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,423 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Brooklands
More households under strain
With a situational-vulnerability score of 5.0 out of 5, Brooklands sits in the index’s harder-pressed areas. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies close at hand
With 4.4 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.7 km off, Brooklands is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Brooklands 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: #72 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,423 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.
Getting to hospital from Brooklands: 3.1 km on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Brooklands, weighted by who lives there.
Residents of Brooklands travel about as far as most of the province: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 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.
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
The region comes 2nd of 5 in Manitoba, where life expectancy runs from 68.5 to 80.7 years.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Brooklands’ bars are its residents’ average, shown and not graded.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Deprivation all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Each dot is a health region, not a town, its figures shared by every town in it; Brooklands’ region sits on the trend line through 102 regions.
Use the deprivation index alone and Brooklands’ region, at 3.3, should live about 79.9 years, the trend through 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and it reaches 80.0, near enough. Even beside regions as deprived, it lags: 6 of its 10 closest matches reach further, their median 81.2 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.
In the region, high blood pressure (20%) and diabetes (8.6%)
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 32%, self-reported obesity is below Manitoba’s 36%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (52%)
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
About as many adults report very good or excellent mental health as across Manitoba (51% against 52%), while 21% call most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Closer to a hospital than most towns its size: Brooklands comes 13th of 40
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (3,065 to 3,162 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 7.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Blakeley ON B+ | 3,151 | 0.4 km | 53% |
| 2 | Ainslie Wood East ON B | 3,112 | 0.9 km | 53% |
| 3 | La Loche SK | 3,124 | 1.0 km | – |
| 11 | Crawford Plains AB B | 3,075 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 12 | Queensway Terrace North ON A | 3,160 | 3.0 km | 56% |
| 13 | Brooklands MB B+ | 3,114 | 3.1 km | 52% |
| 14 | Glengarry AB B | 3,087 | 3.4 km | 51% |
| 15 | Valhalla MB B+ | 3,153 | 4.4 km | 52% |
| 40 | Houston BC D− | 3,114 | 54 km | 42% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Brooklands
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brooklands | 3.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Weston 0.7 km | 2.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Burrows-Keewatin 1.7 km | 3.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Shaughnessy Park 2.3 km | 2.6 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Tyndall Park 2.4 km | 4.6 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Sargent Park 2.5 km | 1.5 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Burrows Central 2.7 km | 2.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Brooklands and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Who the survey asks. The survey’s frame skips reserves and other Indigenous settlements, institutions, the Forces and two Québec regions, so their figures come from elsewhere or not at all.
- What counts as a hospital. A “hospital” here is whatever the provinces listed as one in Statistics Canada’s database, which can mean a site without an emergency department.
- Deprivation is context. Deprivation is shown to set the scene and doesn’t count toward the grade; Statistics Canada left the territories out of the index.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Brooklands shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- Distances are straight lines. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- 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 Brooklands
What is the life expectancy in Brooklands?
For the health region that includes Brooklands, women can expect 82.5 years and men 77.5 (2022/2024).
How is Brooklands’ 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 Brooklands’ homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Brooklands from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Brooklands is 1.7 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Brooklands?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% 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).