Photo: Properpostman · CC BY-SA 4.0Very good or excellent health for 51% of adults in Manor Park’s health region
Life expectancy in the region is 81.4 years (83.4 for women, 79.3 for men, 2022/2024). What sets Manor Park apart within its region is a short trip to hospital, 1.8 km for the average resident (3.7 km typical). Manor Park grades B+ for health, #2 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,294 of 2,583 Canadian towns.
What stands out about health in Manor Park
Pharmacies on every corner
The average resident of Manor Park can reach 9.3 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.
Manor Park 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: #2 of 88 in Nova Scotia and #1,294 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.
The nearest hospital is 1.8 km from the average home in Manor Park
Measured from where the town’s residents live, so this part is Manor Park’s own, not the region’s.
Residents of Manor Park are closer than most of the province: the typical town in Nova Scotia is 9.2 km from a hospital, the typical Canadian town 3.7 km. Few clinics are listed in Nova Scotia, 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.
Shorter lives than deprivation would give: 0.8 years behind the trend
Plotted region by region (102 in all, since towns have no figures of their own), Manor Park’s region comes out below the trend.
Where residents average 2.6 on the index, regions tend to reach 82.2 years (correlation −0.83, 102 regions); the one Manor Park belongs to trails at 81.4. Its 10 closest matches on deprivation lean longer-lived: 5 of them above it, a median of 81.7. Its towns’ household income, about $81,000, sits below most regions’ while its life expectancy sits above; across regions it is the deprivation index, not income, that follows lives (income’s correlation: 0.14).
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.
In the region, high blood pressure (21%) and diabetes (7.5%)
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
At 35%, self-reported obesity is below Nova Scotia’s 39%.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (table 13-10-0972), as published, not adjusted for age; obesity from reported height and weight.
Life expectancy across the 4 health regions in Nova Scotia
Regional life expectancy in Nova Scotia, then the town’s place on the national deprivation index.
Life expectancy at birth by health region · 2022/2024
This is the longest-lived of the 4 regions in Nova Scotia, 2.6 years ahead of the last at 78.8.
Canadian Index of Multiple Deprivation · national quintile, 1 least to 5 most deprived
The index is context and never graded: it describes Manor Park’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 beats Nova Scotia: 51% very good or excellent, against 47%
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
Asked about their mental health, 48% of adults here said very good or excellent; across Nova Scotia it was 48%, and 24% reported most days stressful.
Canadian Community Health Survey 2023/2024 (Statistics Canada table 13-10-0972), adults 18 and over, as published.
Among 40 towns its size, Manor Park is 11th nearest a hospital
Ordered by residents’ distance to a hospital: 40 Canadian towns of 13,873 to 14,430 people, median 3.7 km.
| # | Town | People | Hospital | Very good health |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Vieux-Limoilou QC A+ | 14,347 | 0.6 km | 62% |
| 2 | Sillery QC A+ | 13,950 | 0.8 km | 62% |
| 3 | Sandwich ON B+ | 14,110 | 0.8 km | 52% |
| 9 | Plateau QC A+ | 14,176 | 1.7 km | 62% |
| 10 | Oakridge ON A | 13,913 | 1.7 km | 50% |
| 11 | Manor Park NS B+ | 14,148 | 1.8 km | 51% |
| 12 | Oakridge BC A+ | 14,071 | 2.0 km | 50% |
| 13 | Matane QC A | 14,180 | 2.3 km | 60% |
| 40 | Warman SK B | 14,245 | 18 km | 49% |
The region’s very good or excellent health column is regional: towns in one region share it.
Health in the places around Manor Park
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manor Park | 1.8 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Austinville 2.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Portland Estates 2.6 km | 2.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Woodlawn 2.7 km | 4.1 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Schmidtville 3.7 km | 0.6 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| North End 3.7 km | 0.7 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
| Windsor Park 5.0 km | 1.9 km | 51% | 81.4 | B+ |
Nothing in the regional columns separates Manor Park from its neighbours; the hospital distance is what does.
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.
- Deprivation is context. Statistics Canada’s 2021 deprivation index describes the town’s own areas for context only, with no index for the territories.
- Regional figures. Every place in the health region carries the same survey and life-expectancy figures; what is measured for Manor Park itself is the trip to care.
- 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.
- Who the survey asks. People on reserves and in institutions, full-time military members and the residents of Nunavik and Eeyou Istchee aren’t interviewed by the survey.
- 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 Manor Park
How is Manor Park’s Health Grade worked out?
It will once Canada’s single grading run is done, measured on the region’s survey and life expectancy and on how far Manor Park’s homes are from a hospital, against the typical Canadian town.
How far is Manor Park from a hospital?
Residents of Manor Park have a pharmacy 0.6 km away on average, in a straight line.
How healthy is Manor Park?
The region does worse than the typical Canadian town on most regional measures, with at least one exception. On arthritis, diabetes and high blood pressure, the region’s average share is 18%.
What is the life expectancy in Manor Park?
Statistics Canada publishes it for Manor Park’s health region only: 83.4 years for women and 79.3 for men (2022/2024).
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).