Photo: Bob Linsdell · CC BY 3.0Lives run shorter around Winnipeg: 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%. The town’s own part is the trip to care: residents of Winnipeg live 2.9 km from a hospital on average, close to the typical town’s 3.7 km. At 10%, the share of adults who smoke sits under the 12% for Manitoba.
What stands out about health in Winnipeg
Pharmacies close at hand
With 8.7 pharmacies within 3 km of the average home and the nearest 1.1 km off, Winnipeg is well served for prescriptions. Getting care ↓
From Statistics Canada: the health survey and life expectancy for the health region, the deprivation index for the town; distances from the healthcare facilities database and OpenStreetMap.
Health in Winnipeg: the grade is still to come
The inputs, each beside the typical one of Canadian towns: four for the health region, one for the town itself.
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 Winnipeg, a hospital is 2.9 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Winnipeg’s own, not the region’s.
For distance to care Winnipeg is ordinary: 3.1 km is the typical figure in Manitoba, 3.7 km for the typical Canadian town. 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.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
The comparison runs between 102 health regions, each shared by its towns; Winnipeg’s region’s dot is close to the line.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Winnipeg’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.
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
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.
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 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
The index is context and never graded: it describes Winnipeg’s own areas, averaged over residents, on each of its four dimensions.
Life expectancy: Statistics Canada table 13-10-0988, three-year estimate 2022/2024, by health region.
Self-rated health much as in Manitoba: 53% to 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
Stress touches 21% of adults on most days; mental health is rated very good or excellent by 51%, the province 52% (Manitoba).
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Health in the places around Winnipeg
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winnipeg | 2.9 km | 52% | 80.0 | — |
| River-Osborne 0.3 km | 1.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Broadway-Assiniboine 0.6 km | 1.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Roslyn 0.7 km | 0.7 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| South Portage 1.0 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| West Broadway 1.0 km | 0.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| McMillan 1.1 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Winnipeg’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- 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.
- 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.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Winnipeg shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
Questions about health in Winnipeg
Does Winnipeg have a Health grade?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Winnipeg’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
What is the life expectancy in Winnipeg?
There is no figure for Winnipeg alone; its health region’s is 82.5 for women and 77.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How far is Winnipeg from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Winnipeg is 1.1 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Winnipeg?
Most of the region’s figures sit on the healthier side of the typical Canadian town’s, though not all. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
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).