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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy in every UK council area

Every council in the dataset, grouped by nation and tier, with life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and the years in between, spent in poorer health. Figures are the average of men and women for 2022–2024; each council’s page has the figures for men and women with their confidence intervals.

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380 UK councils, grouped by nation and tier, alphabetical within each group. Life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and years in poorer health at birth, average of men and women, in years (ONS, 2022–2024). A dash means the council has no figure in ONS’s annual series: annual healthy life expectancy is published for upper-tier and single-tier councils, not English districts. A district’s own page shows its county’s annual figure, labelled as the county’s, and ONS’s separate census-based estimate for the district, which is not comparable and is not listed here. Sorting keeps each group together.

380 UK councils, grouped by nation and tier: life expectancy, healthy life expectancy and years in poorer health, average of men and women
Council Nation Type Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy Years in poorer health Bar chart
English upper-tier councils: counties, unitary authorities, metropolitan and London boroughs 151 England: figures and trends
Barking and Dagenham England London borough 80.0 59.3 20.7
Barnet England London borough 84.2 62.2 22.0
Barnsley England Metropolitan borough 79.2 55.3 23.9
Bath and North East Somerset England Unitary authority 83.2 65.5 17.7
Bedford England Unitary authority 81.8 62.6 19.2
Bexley England London borough 81.9 61.5 20.4
Birmingham England Metropolitan borough 79.5 58.2 21.3
Blackburn with Darwen England Unitary authority 78.5 54.2 24.3
Blackpool England Unitary authority 76.4 51.4 25.0
Bolton England Metropolitan borough 79.2 55.0 24.2
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole England Unitary authority 81.8 61.5 20.3
Bracknell Forest England Unitary authority 83.2 66.1 17.1
Bradford England Metropolitan borough 79.4 57.8 21.6
Brent England London borough 82.8 64.9 17.9
Brighton and Hove England Unitary authority 81.5 61.9 19.6
Bristol, City of England Unitary authority 80.8 60.1 20.7
Bromley England London borough 83.8 67.6 16.2
Buckinghamshire England Unitary authority 83.5 66.1 17.4
Bury England Metropolitan borough 80.1 57.8 22.3
Calderdale England Metropolitan borough 80.4 60.6 19.8
Cambridgeshire England County 82.6 61.9 20.7
Camden England London borough 83.3 59.6 23.7
Central Bedfordshire England Unitary authority 82.4 61.2 21.2
Cheshire East England Unitary authority 82.0 65.3 16.7
Cheshire West and Chester England Unitary authority 81.7 62.3 19.4
Cornwall England Unitary authority 81.6 60.1 21.5
County Durham England Unitary authority 79.6 55.7 23.9
Coventry England Metropolitan borough 79.6 59.1 20.5
Croydon England London borough 82.1 67.1 15.0
Cumberland England Unitary authority 79.8 59.6 20.2
Darlington England Unitary authority 79.6 58.6 21.0
Derby England Unitary authority 80.1 57.6 22.5
Derbyshire England County 81.0 60.5 20.5
Devon England County 82.6 63.9 18.7
Doncaster England Metropolitan borough 79.1 55.3 23.8
Dorset England Unitary authority 83.0 65.5 17.5
Dudley England Metropolitan borough 81.0 59.3 21.7
Ealing England London borough 83.0 62.7 20.3
East Riding of Yorkshire England Unitary authority 81.7 59.5 22.2
East Sussex England County 82.0 59.6 22.4
Enfield England London borough 83.2 61.0 22.2
Essex England County 82.2 62.6 19.6
Gateshead England Metropolitan borough 79.2 58.2 21.0
Gloucestershire England County 82.1 63.4 18.7
Greenwich England London borough 81.2 58.0 23.2
Hackney England London borough 80.6 59.1 21.5
Halton England Unitary authority 79.1 56.6 22.5
Hammersmith and Fulham England London borough 82.3 66.7 15.6
Hampshire England County 83.2 64.7 18.5
Haringey England London borough 82.8 58.3 24.5
Harrow England London borough 83.9 62.8 21.1
Hartlepool England Unitary authority 78.8 51.7 27.1
Havering England London borough 82.3 63.6 18.7
Herefordshire, County of England Unitary authority 81.9 62.0 19.9
Hertfordshire England County 82.9 65.5 17.4
Hillingdon England London borough 82.3 64.6 17.7
Hounslow England London borough 82.5 59.5 23.0
Isle of Wight England Unitary authority 82.3 59.0 23.3
Islington England London borough 81.2 60.5 20.7
Kensington and Chelsea England London borough 84.7 66.7 18.0
Kent England County 81.7 63.2 18.5
Kingston upon Hull, City of England Unitary authority 78.0 53.2 24.8
Kingston upon Thames England London borough 83.7 67.0 16.7
Kirklees England Metropolitan borough 80.0 57.9 22.1
Knowsley England Metropolitan borough 78.8 53.9 24.9
Lambeth England London borough 81.4 64.2 17.2
Lancashire England County 80.3 59.8 20.5
Leeds England Metropolitan borough 80.7 60.7 20.0
Leicester England Unitary authority 79.2 57.9 21.3
Leicestershire England County 82.3 61.5 20.8
Lewisham England London borough 81.3 58.2 23.1
Lincolnshire England County 80.7 58.6 22.1
Liverpool England Metropolitan borough 78.2 56.3 21.9
Luton England Unitary authority 80.6 56.4 24.2
Manchester England Metropolitan borough 77.9 57.2 20.7
Medway England Unitary authority 80.7 59.6 21.1
Merton England London borough 83.0 62.2 20.8
Middlesbrough England Unitary authority 78.0 54.1 23.9
Milton Keynes England Unitary authority 81.6 61.2 20.4
Newcastle upon Tyne England Metropolitan borough 79.7 60.5 19.2
Newham England London borough 81.4 63.0 18.4
Norfolk England County 81.7 61.2 20.5
North East Lincolnshire England Unitary authority 79.0 54.8 24.2
North Lincolnshire England Unitary authority 80.0 59.2 20.8
North Northamptonshire England Unitary authority 80.7 58.5 22.2
North Somerset England Unitary authority 82.5 62.5 20.0
North Tyneside England Metropolitan borough 80.1 57.5 22.6
North Yorkshire England Unitary authority 82.3 65.0 17.3
Northumberland England Unitary authority 81.2 59.9 21.3
Nottingham England Unitary authority 78.6 55.5 23.1
Nottinghamshire England County 81.2 58.8 22.4
Oldham England Metropolitan borough 79.3 56.4 22.9
Oxfordshire England County 83.4 66.0 17.4
Peterborough England Unitary authority 80.0 57.7 22.3
Plymouth England Unitary authority 80.6 54.6 26.0
Portsmouth England Unitary authority 80.4 58.1 22.3
Reading England Unitary authority 81.4 62.4 19.0
Redbridge England London borough 83.0 63.4 19.6
Redcar and Cleveland England Unitary authority 79.3 54.3 25.0
Richmond upon Thames England London borough 84.8 69.8 15.0
Rochdale England Metropolitan borough 79.3 54.0 25.3
Rotherham England Metropolitan borough 79.7 55.4 24.3
Rutland England Unitary authority 83.4 64.9 18.5
Salford England Metropolitan borough 78.8 57.7 21.1
Sandwell England Metropolitan borough 79.0 52.0 27.0
Sefton England Metropolitan borough 80.4 59.3 21.1
Sheffield England Metropolitan borough 80.3 57.4 22.9
Shropshire England Unitary authority 82.2 62.7 19.5
Slough England Unitary authority 80.3 61.0 19.3
Solihull England Metropolitan borough 82.3 63.1 19.2
Somerset England Unitary authority 82.2 62.9 19.3
South Gloucestershire England Unitary authority 82.9 64.1 18.8
South Tyneside England Metropolitan borough 78.9 55.9 23.0
Southampton England Unitary authority 80.3 58.3 22.0
Southend-on-Sea England Unitary authority 80.8 61.4 19.4
Southwark England London borough 81.6 62.7 18.9
St. Helens England Metropolitan borough 79.3 55.9 23.4
Staffordshire England County 81.7 62.8 18.9
Stockport England Metropolitan borough 81.5 62.5 19.0
Stockton-on-Tees England Unitary authority 80.3 55.3 25.0
Stoke-on-Trent England Unitary authority 78.9 54.3 24.6
Suffolk England County 82.4 61.9 20.5
Sunderland England Metropolitan borough 79.2 56.4 22.8
Surrey England County 83.6 65.8 17.8
Sutton England London borough 82.7 68.5 14.2
Swindon England Unitary authority 81.8 61.5 20.3
Tameside England Metropolitan borough 79.0 55.6 23.4
Telford and Wrekin England Unitary authority 80.3 56.1 24.2
Thurrock England Unitary authority 80.8 58.6 22.2
Torbay England Unitary authority 80.9 61.7 19.2
Tower Hamlets England London borough 80.8 59.4 21.4
Trafford England Metropolitan borough 81.8 64.5 17.3
Wakefield England Metropolitan borough 79.6 53.9 25.7
Walsall England Metropolitan borough 79.7 55.6 24.1
Waltham Forest England London borough 81.9 64.5 17.4
Wandsworth England London borough 82.9 63.8 19.1
Warrington England Unitary authority 80.4 62.7 17.7
Warwickshire England County 81.8 63.1 18.7
West Berkshire England Unitary authority 83.2 66.0 17.2
West Northamptonshire England Unitary authority 81.6 61.8 19.8
West Sussex England County 82.6 63.8 18.8
Westminster England London borough 84.2 60.2 24.0
Westmorland and Furness England Unitary authority 81.9 63.6 18.3
Wigan England Metropolitan borough 79.4 54.9 24.5
Wiltshire England Unitary authority 83.0 63.8 19.2
Windsor and Maidenhead England Unitary authority 83.6 68.1 15.5
Wirral England Metropolitan borough 80.1 59.6 20.5
Wokingham England Unitary authority 84.3 68.7 15.6
Wolverhampton England Metropolitan borough 79.2 58.9 20.3
Worcestershire England County 81.8 63.2 18.6
York England Unitary authority 81.7 61.1 20.6
English districts (lower tier) 164
Adur England District 82.4 — —
Amber Valley England District 80.8 — —
Arun England District 81.8 — —
Ashfield England District 79.4 — —
Ashford England District 82.1 — —
Babergh England District 83.4 — —
Basildon England District 81.8 — —
Basingstoke and Deane England District 82.9 — —
Bassetlaw England District 80.8 — —
Blaby England District 82.9 — —
Bolsover England District 79.3 — —
Boston England District 79.3 — —
Braintree England District 81.9 — —
Breckland England District 81.6 — —
Brentwood England District 83.6 — —
Broadland England District 82.7 — —
Bromsgrove England District 82.5 — —
Broxbourne England District 83.1 — —
Broxtowe England District 81.8 — —
Burnley England District 78.2 — —
Cambridge England District 82.3 — —
Cannock Chase England District 80.7 — —
Canterbury England District 81.8 — —
Castle Point England District 82.2 — —
Charnwood England District 82.0 — —
Chelmsford England District 82.8 — —
Cheltenham England District 82.0 — —
Cherwell England District 82.6 — —
Chesterfield England District 79.6 — —
Chichester England District 82.4 — —
Chorley England District 80.3 — —
Colchester England District 82.0 — —
Cotswold England District 83.3 — —
Crawley England District 82.2 — —
Dacorum England District 82.7 — —
Dartford England District 81.5 — —
Derbyshire Dales England District 83.1 — —
Dover England District 81.3 — —
East Cambridgeshire England District 83.5 — —
East Devon England District 83.5 — —
East Hampshire England District 83.7 — —
East Hertfordshire England District 83.8 — —
East Lindsey England District 79.7 — —
East Staffordshire England District 81.5 — —
East Suffolk England District 82.2 — —
Eastbourne England District 81.1 — —
Eastleigh England District 83.5 — —
Elmbridge England District 84.2 — —
Epping Forest England District 83.0 — —
Epsom and Ewell England District 83.6 — —
Erewash England District 80.4 — —
Exeter England District 81.1 — —
Fareham England District 83.4 — —
Fenland England District 80.1 — —
Folkestone and Hythe England District 80.6 — —
Forest of Dean England District 81.7 — —
Fylde England District 81.6 — —
Gedling England District 81.7 — —
Gloucester England District 80.2 — —
Gosport England District 80.7 — —
Gravesham England District 81.4 — —
Great Yarmouth England District 79.6 — —
Guildford England District 83.5 — —
Harborough England District 83.1 — —
Harlow England District 80.8 — —
Hart England District 85.0 — —
Hastings England District 79.1 — —
Havant England District 81.8 — —
Hertsmere England District 83.1 — —
High Peak England District 81.2 — —
Hinckley and Bosworth England District 82.0 — —
Horsham England District 83.9 — —
Huntingdonshire England District 82.6 — —
Hyndburn England District 78.3 — —
Ipswich England District 81.1 — —
King's Lynn and West Norfolk England District 81.6 — —
Lancaster England District 79.8 — —
Lewes England District 82.8 — —
Lichfield England District 82.7 — —
Lincoln England District 78.5 — —
Maidstone England District 82.1 — —
Maldon England District 82.1 — —
Malvern Hills England District 82.5 — —
Mansfield England District 79.5 — —
Melton England District 82.4 — —
Mid Devon England District 82.4 — —
Mid Suffolk England District 83.0 — —
Mid Sussex England District 83.4 — —
Mole Valley England District 84.0 — —
New Forest England District 83.5 — —
Newark and Sherwood England District 81.3 — —
Newcastle-under-Lyme England District 81.0 — —
North Devon England District 81.4 — —
North East Derbyshire England District 81.6 — —
North Hertfordshire England District 82.9 — —
North Kesteven England District 81.9 — —
North Norfolk England District 82.5 — —
North Warwickshire England District 80.5 — —
North West Leicestershire England District 82.0 — —
Norwich England District 80.4 — —
Nuneaton and Bedworth England District 80.4 — —
Oadby and Wigston England District 82.4 — —
Oxford England District 82.4 — —
Pendle England District 80.0 — —
Preston England District 79.3 — —
Redditch England District 81.4 — —
Reigate and Banstead England District 83.3 — —
Ribble Valley England District 83.1 — —
Rochford England District 82.7 — —
Rossendale England District 79.5 — —
Rother England District 81.7 — —
Rugby England District 81.3 — —
Runnymede England District 82.3 — —
Rushcliffe England District 83.8 — —
Rushmoor England District 82.0 — —
Sevenoaks England District 83.8 — —
South Cambridgeshire England District 84.0 — —
South Derbyshire England District 81.9 — —
South Hams England District 83.6 — —
South Holland England District 80.9 — —
South Kesteven England District 81.9 — —
South Norfolk England District 82.9 — —
South Oxfordshire England District 84.1 — —
South Ribble England District 82.3 — —
South Staffordshire England District 82.4 — —
Spelthorne England District 82.9 — —
St Albans England District 83.8 — —
Stafford England District 82.1 — —
Staffordshire Moorlands England District 81.8 — —
Stevenage England District 80.9 — —
Stratford-on-Avon England District 83.4 — —
Stroud England District 82.6 — —
Surrey Heath England District 83.8 — —
Swale England District 81.1 — —
Tamworth England District 81.1 — —
Tandridge England District 83.8 — —
Teignbridge England District 83.0 — —
Tendring England District 80.2 — —
Test Valley England District 83.5 — —
Tewkesbury England District 83.1 — —
Thanet England District 79.6 — —
Three Rivers England District 83.5 — —
Tonbridge and Malling England District 82.7 — —
Torridge England District 82.1 — —
Tunbridge Wells England District 83.1 — —
Uttlesford England District 84.6 — —
Vale of White Horse England District 83.6 — —
Warwick England District 82.4 — —
Watford England District 81.8 — —
Waverley England District 84.2 — —
Wealden England District 83.8 — —
Welwyn Hatfield England District 82.7 — —
West Devon England District 83.0 — —
West Lancashire England District 81.1 — —
West Lindsey England District 81.5 — —
West Oxfordshire England District 83.7 — —
West Suffolk England District 82.7 — —
Winchester England District 84.4 — —
Woking England District 83.3 — —
Worcester England District 80.9 — —
Worthing England District 81.7 — —
Wychavon England District 82.5 — —
Wyre England District 80.5 — —
Wyre Forest England District 80.8 — —
Scottish councils 32 Scotland: figures and trends
Aberdeen City Scotland Council 79.3 58.9 20.4
Aberdeenshire Scotland Council 81.2 64.4 16.8
Angus Scotland Council 79.9 62.6 17.3
Argyll and Bute Scotland Council 80.0 58.9 21.1
City of Edinburgh Scotland Council 80.3 63.6 16.7
Clackmannanshire Scotland Council 78.1 54.9 23.2
Dumfries and Galloway Scotland Council 79.2 59.0 20.2
Dundee City Scotland Council 77.5 55.8 21.7
East Ayrshire Scotland Council 77.3 53.9 23.4
East Dunbartonshire Scotland Council 82.3 64.3 18.0
East Lothian Scotland Council 80.7 60.3 20.4
East Renfrewshire Scotland Council 83.2 68.3 14.9
Falkirk Scotland Council 78.2 59.0 19.2
Fife Scotland Council 79.1 59.0 20.1
Glasgow City Scotland Council 76.5 55.9 20.6
Highland Scotland Council 79.9 61.5 18.4
Inverclyde Scotland Council 77.6 53.9 23.7
Midlothian Scotland Council 79.9 60.6 19.3
Moray Scotland Council 80.0 61.9 18.1
Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland Council 78.8 64.0 14.8
North Ayrshire Scotland Council 77.4 53.4 24.0
North Lanarkshire Scotland Council 77.1 52.6 24.5
Orkney Islands Scotland Council 81.1 73.5 7.6
Perth and Kinross Scotland Council 81.0 65.9 15.1
Renfrewshire Scotland Council 78.7 56.5 22.2
Scottish Borders Scotland Council 80.9 62.7 18.2
Shetland Islands Scotland Council 81.7 69.6 12.1
South Ayrshire Scotland Council 79.1 57.8 21.3
South Lanarkshire Scotland Council 78.7 58.0 20.7
Stirling Scotland Council 80.4 60.3 20.1
West Dunbartonshire Scotland Council 77.4 53.1 24.3
West Lothian Scotland Council 79.1 60.2 18.9
Welsh principal areas 22 Wales: figures and trends
Blaenau Gwent Wales Principal area 77.5 55.1 22.4
Bridgend Wales Principal area 80.0 57.6 22.4
Caerphilly Wales Principal area 78.9 57.5 21.4
Cardiff Wales Principal area 80.4 59.8 20.6
Carmarthenshire Wales Principal area 80.3 57.0 23.3
Ceredigion Wales Principal area 81.5 63.3 18.2
Conwy Wales Principal area 80.8 60.9 19.9
Denbighshire Wales Principal area 79.5 59.6 19.9
Flintshire Wales Principal area 80.6 58.7 21.9
Gwynedd Wales Principal area 81.1 62.4 18.7
Isle of Anglesey Wales Principal area 80.7 61.2 19.5
Merthyr Tydfil Wales Principal area 77.4 50.9 26.5
Monmouthshire Wales Principal area 82.5 63.4 19.1
Neath Port Talbot Wales Principal area 79.5 57.5 22.0
Newport Wales Principal area 80.0 56.6 23.4
Pembrokeshire Wales Principal area 81.0 61.6 19.4
Powys Wales Principal area 82.0 64.0 18.0
Rhondda Cynon Taf Wales Principal area 79.2 55.5 23.7
Swansea Wales Principal area 79.9 57.1 22.8
Torfaen Wales Principal area 79.6 53.5 26.1
Vale of Glamorgan Wales Principal area 82.1 62.5 19.6
Wrexham Wales Principal area 79.8 60.2 19.6
Northern Ireland districts 11 Northern Ireland: figures and trends
Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland District 80.9 62.6 18.3
Ards and North Down Northern Ireland District 81.7 61.9 19.8
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Northern Ireland District 81.1 61.3 19.8
Belfast Northern Ireland District 78.5 56.8 21.7
Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland District 81.2 58.6 22.6
Derry City and Strabane Northern Ireland District 79.4 54.6 24.8
Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland District 81.8 62.1 19.7
Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland District 82.2 65.7 16.5
Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland District 81.0 60.5 20.5
Mid Ulster Northern Ireland District 81.5 65.7 15.8
Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland District 81.3 63.3 18.0