People in Meadows’ health region live to 80.0 on average, 1.5 years short of the typical Canadian town
The survey puts the region’s share in very good or excellent health at 52%; Manitoba as a whole is at 51%. For Meadows itself the measure is access: 3.1 km to the nearest hospital, much like the typical 3.7 km. Health gives Meadows a grade of B+, #72 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,423 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Meadows
Pharmacies close at hand
The average resident of Meadows can reach 4.1 pharmacies inside 3 km; the closest is 0.6 km off. 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.
Meadows 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.
From Meadows, a hospital is 3.1 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Meadows’ own, not the region’s.
That is close to the 3.1 km of the typical town in Manitoba (the typical Canadian town: 3.7 km), as Meadows goes. 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.
Barely ahead of regions as deprived
Every town shares its health region’s figures, so this compares 102 regions; the one holding Meadows’ lies near the line.
Life expectancy and deprivation move in opposite directions across 102 regions (correlation −0.83); at 3.3, the expected figure is 79.9 years, and Meadows’ region matches it closely with 80.0. It is outlived by 6 of the 10 regions nearest it on the index, whose median is 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
Self-reported obesity, 32%, trails Manitoba (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
Life expectancy in Manitoba runs from 68.5 to 80.7; this region sits 2nd of the 5.
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 Meadows’ own areas.
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%
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 reads like the rest of Manitoba: 51% against 52%, and 21% under quite a bit of stress most days.
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: Meadows comes 16th of 40
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 3,746 to 3,903 people, median 4.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | City Park SK A− | 3,827 | 0.4 km | 49% |
| 2 | Clareview Town Centre AB B+ | 3,800 | 0.8 km | 51% |
| 3 | Cardston AB B | 3,863 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 14 | Berrisfield ON B | 3,773 | 3.0 km | 53% |
| 15 | Bridgeport East ON A | 3,903 | 3.0 km | 53% |
| 16 | Meadows MB B+ | 3,822 | 3.1 km | 52% |
| 17 | Pacific Heights SK B+ | 3,770 | 3.1 km | 49% |
| 18 | Grand River North ON A | 3,823 | 4.3 km | 53% |
| 40 | Salisbury NB C | 3,806 | 29 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Meadows
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meadows | 3.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Radisson 1.1 km | 3.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Grassie 1.6 km | 1.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Victoria West 1.7 km | 4.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Peguis 2.3 km | 1.6 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Kildare-Redonda 2.5 km | 5.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B |
| Mission Gardens 2.5 km | 2.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Every place around Meadows shares its health region, so their survey figures match; only the distance to care differs.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Regional figures. The survey figures and life expectancy are published for the health region, so every town in it shares them and only the distances are Meadows’ own.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. The Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation (2021) is context, never graded, and the territories have none.
- 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.
Questions about health in Meadows
How is Meadows’ Health Grade worked out?
Canada’s grades haven’t been set, so Meadows 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 Meadows?
Women in Meadows’ region live to 82.5 on average and men to 77.5, Statistics Canada’s 2022/2024 estimate.
How far is Meadows from a hospital?
A pharmacy is 0.6 km from the average resident of Meadows, as the crow flies; clinic lists here are too thin to measure.
How healthy is Meadows?
Taken together the region leans healthier than the typical Canadian town, but the picture is mixed. Its chronic-condition figure, age-standardised, 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).