Life expectancy around Riverview is 80.0 years, 1.5 less than for the typical Canadian town
In the health survey, 52% of adults in the region rate their health very good or excellent, close to Manitoba’s 51%. For Riverview itself the measure is access, and it scores well: 2.3 km to the nearest hospital, where 3.7 km is typical. The Health grade for Riverview is B+, #50 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,346 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Riverview
Plenty of pharmacies
A typical home in Riverview has 14 pharmacies within 3 km, the nearest 0.6 km away. 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.
Riverview 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: #50 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,346 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 Riverview, a hospital is 2.3 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Riverview’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Riverview 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. 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.
As long-lived as regions this deprived, if slightly longer
Regions, not towns, with every town in a region sharing its dot: of the 102, the marked one, Riverview’s, follows the trend.
Canada’s 102 health regions show life expectancy dropping as deprivation climbs (correlation −0.83); a region scored 3.3 would be expected to reach 79.9 years, and Riverview’s region is close, at 80.0. The 10 regions scored most like it mostly do better (6 of 10), with a median of 81.2.
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
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.
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 Riverview’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%
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
For 21% of adults most days are quite a bit stressful, and 51% rate their mental health very good or excellent, near Manitoba’s 52%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Riverview is 13th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 4,554 to 4,740 people, median 3.4 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Country Hills ON A | 4,561 | 0.5 km | 53% |
| 2 | Raymond AB B | 4,594 | 1.0 km | 52% |
| 3 | Jasper AB C− | 4,627 | 1.0 km | 48% |
| 11 | Pembina Strip MB B+ | 4,715 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 12 | Rockwood MB B+ | 4,554 | 2.1 km | 52% |
| 13 | Riverview MB B+ | 4,649 | 2.3 km | 52% |
| 14 | Riverside Park - Mooneys Bay ON A+ | 4,692 | 2.4 km | 56% |
| 15 | Albion ON B | 4,585 | 2.5 km | 53% |
| 40 | Dundas NB C | 4,733 | 27 km | 43% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Riverview
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | 2.3 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Lord Roberts 0.9 km | 2.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Norwood West 1.0 km | 1.2 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Glenwood 1.6 km | 2.8 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Norwood East 1.8 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| River-Osborne 1.8 km | 1.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| McMillan 1.8 km | 1.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Because the health region stops further out than these places, they all carry Riverview’s regional figures.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Distances are straight lines. They run from where residents live, not along roads, so they understate a drive; each dissemination area counts by its 2021 population.
- Regional figures. Statistics Canada reports the survey and life expectancy by health region, not by town: Riverview shares them with its neighbours, while the distances are measured for it alone.
- 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.
- What counts as a hospital. The facilities database merges provincial lists of different vintages; its hospitals include some with no emergency department, and a few are placed by postal code.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- 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.
Questions about health in Riverview
What is the life expectancy in Riverview?
Life expectancy comes by health region: 82.5 for women, 77.5 for men around Riverview (2022/2024).
How is Riverview’s Health Grade worked out?
Not so far; the grade arrives with Canada’s grading run and will set the region’s figures, plus Riverview’s own distance to care, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Riverview from a hospital?
Beyond the hospital, the average home in Riverview is 0.6 km from a pharmacy; clinics are too sparsely listed in the province to say.
How healthy is Riverview?
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).