Photo: Robert Linsdell from St. Andrews, Canada · CC BY 2.0Lives run shorter around Buchanan: 80.0 years, 1.5 below the typical Canadian town’s region
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. What sets Buchanan apart within its region is distance, and at 3.3 km to a hospital it is ordinary (3.7 km typical). Buchanan grades B+ for health, #75 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,429 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Buchanan 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: #75 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,429 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 all but predicts the region’s life expectancy, which edges past the trend
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Buchanan’s, follows the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Buchanan’s region fits it, 80.0 years at 3.3 against the line’s 79.9. 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.
20% of the region’s adults have high blood pressure and 8.6% diabetes
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
Fewer adults report obesity than across Manitoba: 32%, the province 36%.
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 3.3 km from the average home in Buchanan
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Buchanan’s own, not the region’s.
Buchanan is near the provincial norm, 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba, with 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.
How the 5 health regions in Manitoba compare on life expectancy
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 2nd 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
Context only: each bar is the residents’ average quintile on one dimension of Statistics Canada’s index, for Buchanan’s own areas.
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: 53% and 52%
The survey’s answers for the region as given, each beside the province’s (the tick).
Share of adults, as answered · 2023/2024
Neither ahead nor behind Manitoba on mental health (51% to 52%), the region has 21% of adults stressed most days.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Buchanan is 21st nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,411 to 3,536 people, median 3.2 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Lynnwood AB B+ | 3,452 | 0.4 km | 51% |
| 2 | Malartic QC B+ | 3,506 | 0.8 km | 57% |
| 3 | Virginia Park AB B+ | 3,431 | 1.0 km | 51% |
| 19 | Bridgeview BC A | 3,511 | 2.9 km | 50% |
| 20 | Brevoort Park SK B+ | 3,485 | 3.0 km | 49% |
| 21 | Buchanan MB B+ | 3,473 | 3.3 km | 52% |
| 22 | Niakwa Place MB B+ | 3,461 | 4.9 km | 52% |
| 23 | Merrickville ON B− | 3,411 | 5.4 km | 51% |
| 40 | Electoral Area F, Columbia-Shuswap BC C− | 3,475 | 29 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Buchanan
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchanan | 3.3 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Crestview 0.9 km | 2.3 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Glendale 2.1 km | 3.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Westwood 2.1 km | 2.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Sturgeon Creek 2.1 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Heritage Park 2.6 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Kirkfield 2.6 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Around Buchanan the health region doesn’t change, so the only column that moves is the distance to a hospital.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. Only the distances on this page belong to Buchanan alone, because the health survey and life expectancy come for the whole health region.
- 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.
- 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. Roads, rivers and ferries aren’t in it: the figure is a straight line from where people live, averaged over residents.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
- 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.
Questions about health in Buchanan
How is Buchanan’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Buchanan’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Buchanan?
There is no figure for Buchanan alone; its health region’s is 82.5 for women and 77.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Buchanan from a hospital?
For everyday care, Buchanan’s residents are 0.9 km from a pharmacy on average.
How healthy is Buchanan?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. Chronic conditions there average 18% 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).