People in Chalmers’ health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
Self-rated health is ordinary for Manitoba: 52% of the region’s adults say very good or excellent, the province 51%. Closer to home, a hospital sits 2.9 km from the average resident of Chalmers, about the norm of 3.7 km. Chalmers grades B+ for health, #64 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,403 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Chalmers
More households under strain
Statistics Canada’s deprivation index places Chalmers at 5.0 of 5 for situational vulnerability, close to the top band. The wider area ↓
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Chalmers can reach 9.5 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 1.4 km off. Getting care ↓
Survey and life expectancy: the health region (Statistics Canada). Distances and deprivation: the town’s own areas.
Chalmers 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: #64 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,403 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.
From Chalmers, a hospital is 2.9 km away on average
Straight-line distances from each part of Chalmers, weighted by who lives there.
Against 3.1 km for the typical town in Manitoba and 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town, Chalmers sits near the middle. 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
Ranked 2nd 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
Statistics Canada scores every small area from 1 to 5 on each dimension; Chalmers’ 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
These are health regions, 102 of them, not towns: the survey and life expectancy are published that way, so the dot for Chalmers’ region, on the line, stands for every town in it.
Placed among 102 regions by deprivation (correlation −0.83), the region Chalmers belongs to lives about as long as its score of 3.3 predicts: 80.0 years, the trend 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.
High blood pressure for 20% of adults in the region, diabetes for 8.6%
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 lower than in the province, at 32% 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.
53% in the region call their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba (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
On mental health the region tracks Manitoba, 51% very good or excellent to 52%; 21% describe most days as quite a bit stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Chalmers is 13th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
The 40 Canadian towns nearest its population (12,138 to 12,639 people), nearest a hospital first; their median is 3.9 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | DT Hospital ON A− | 12,384 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Yonge-Eglinton ON A | 12,424 | 0.7 km | 50% |
| 3 | Woodbine Corridor ON A | 12,283 | 1.0 km | 50% |
| 11 | Forest Hill North ON A | 12,432 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 12 | Grenet QC A | 12,580 | 2.1 km | 54% |
| 13 | Chalmers MB B+ | 12,384 | 2.9 km | 52% |
| 14 | Chaparral AB A+ | 12,522 | 2.9 km | 56% |
| 15 | Milliken ON A | 12,138 | 3.0 km | 51% |
| 40 | Lac Ste. Anne County AB D− | 12,639 | 25 km | 48% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Chalmers
Nearby places: distance to a hospital and each one’s regional figures. Tap a town for its health page.
| Town | Hospital | Very good health | Life exp. | Health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chalmers | 2.9 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Munroe West 1.2 km | 2.6 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Talbot-Grey 1.2 km | 2.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| North Point Douglas 1.6 km | 2.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Luxton 1.6 km | 3.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Rossmere-B 2.0 km | 2.5 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| North St. Boniface 2.1 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
One health region covers Chalmers and every place in the table, so the survey and life-expectancy columns read the same.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Chalmers itself is the trip to care.
- What counts as a hospital. Facility locations come from Statistics Canada’s open database; records without coordinates sit at their postal code, and not every hospital has an emergency room.
- Distances are straight lines. Each small census area is measured as the crow flies to the nearest facility and weighted by its 2021 residents, so real trips run longer.
- Who the survey asks. The health survey leaves out people living on reserves, full-time Canadian Forces members, people in institutions, and Nunavik and the Cree lands of James Bay.
- 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 Chalmers
How is Chalmers’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Chalmers has none yet; when they are, Health will set its region and its hospital distance against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Chalmers?
Women in Chalmers’ region live to 82.5 on average and men to 77.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Chalmers from a hospital?
Residents of Chalmers have a pharmacy 1.4 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Chalmers?
The region does better than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. 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).