Varsity View’s region trails the typical Canadian town by 1.5 years: life expectancy 80.0
About as many adults call their health very good or excellent here as across Manitoba, 52% against 51%. Closer to home, a hospital is just 2.4 km from the average resident of Varsity View, nearer than the usual 3.7 km. Health gives Varsity View a grade of B+, #53 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,358 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
Varsity View 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: #53 of 185 in Manitoba and #1,358 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.
Life expectancy about where the region’s deprivation puts it, a shade above
102 dots, 102 health regions: no town has its own life expectancy here, and Varsity View’s region shows close to the trend.
More deprivation, shorter lives: that holds across the 102 regions (correlation −0.83), and Varsity View’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
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.
From Varsity View, a hospital is 2.4 km away on average
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Varsity View’s own, not the region’s.
Nothing unusual for Varsity View here: the typical town in Manitoba is 3.1 km from a hospital and 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.
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
Among the 5 regions in Manitoba, from 68.5 to 80.7 years, this one is 2nd.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Varsity View’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
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.
Varsity View is 8th of 40 towns its size for nearness to a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 2,941 to 3,030 people, median 6.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dewdney Place SK B+ | 3,021 | 0.9 km | 49% |
| 2 | Buchanan ON B | 3,006 | 1.0 km | 53% |
| 3 | Wawa ON C− | 2,943 | 1.2 km | 46% |
| 6 | Sunnyside AB A+ | 2,976 | 1.8 km | 56% |
| 7 | Allendale AB B+ | 2,951 | 2.2 km | 51% |
| 8 | Varsity View MB B+ | 2,985 | 2.4 km | 52% |
| 9 | Holliston SK B+ | 2,963 | 2.7 km | 49% |
| 10 | Kernohan AB B | 3,020 | 2.7 km | 51% |
| 40 | Elkford BC B− | 3,030 | 55 km | 57% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Varsity View
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Varsity View | 2.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Elmhurst 1.2 km | 3.5 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Silver Heights 1.8 km | 1.7 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Booth 2.5 km | 0.9 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Kirkfield 2.6 km | 1.4 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| Deer Lodge 2.7 km | 3.1 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
| South Tuxedo 2.9 km | 5.0 km | 52% | 80.0 | B+ |
Only the hospital column is local here: Varsity View and its neighbours share one health region’s survey.
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.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Varsity View itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- 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.
- Deprivation is context. None of the four deprivation scores enters the grade; they come from the 2021 index, which skips the territories.
- Adjusted for age. Because older people report more illness, the grade uses age-standardised shares; the charts above show the unadjusted answers.
Questions about health in Varsity View
What is the life expectancy in Varsity View?
There is no figure for Varsity View alone; its health region’s is 82.5 for women and 77.5 for men in 2022/2024.
How is Varsity View’s Health Grade worked out?
No letter yet for Varsity View: Canada is graded in one run, and Health will then compare its region and its access to care with the typical Canadian town.
How far is Varsity View from a hospital?
Residents of Varsity View have a pharmacy 0.7 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Varsity View?
More of the region’s survey and life-expectancy figures beat the typical Canadian town than trail it. The three chronic conditions the grade counts average 18% of adults.
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).