Rankings · Drinking over 14 units

Adults drinking over 14 units a week, council by council

The share of adults, from each nation’s own survey. Surveys, periods and methods differ between the nations, so each nation is ranked on its own and the tables are not comparable across nations.

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How to read these rankings. Rank 1 is the highest figure in the group. Councils with the same figure share a rank, marked “=”, and the next rank is skipped. Ranks describe the published estimates, not a verdict on a council.

These are survey estimates, and Lifemap’s dataset holds no confidence intervals for them, so the tables show none and make no comparison with a national figure. Small differences between neighbouring councils are unlikely to be meaningful. Methodology §04 gives the survey and period behind each nation’s figures.

England

English upper-tier councils: counties, unitary authorities, metropolitan and London boroughs

Period 2015–18 · OHID Fingertips indicator 92778 (Health Survey for England)

Drinking over 14 units · England, upper tier · 2015–18. 145 councils, highest first. England figure: 22.8%.

Drinking over 14 units · England, upper tier · 2015–18. 145 councils, highest first.
Rank Council %
1 Kensington and Chelsea 41.3
2= Brighton and Hove 40.7
2= Isle of Wight 40.7
4 Islington 37.0
5 Richmond upon Thames 34.5
6 South Tyneside 33.8
7 Lambeth 32.2
8 Southwark 31.2
9 Rotherham 31.1
10= Blackburn with Darwen 30.8
10= North Somerset 30.8
12= Cheshire East 30.4
12= Cheshire West and Chester 30.4
14 Wigan 30.2
15 Calderdale 30.1
16 Bristol, City of 29.7
17 Halton 29.2
18 Derbyshire 29.1
19 Salford 28.9
20= Cambridgeshire 28.7
20= Lewisham 28.7
20= Oldham 28.7
23= Bury 28.6
23= Cornwall 28.6
25 Trafford 28.5
26 Barnsley 28.4
27 Ealing 28.0
28 Worcestershire 27.8
29= Herefordshire, County of 27.5
29= Shropshire 27.5
31= Staffordshire 27.4
31= Wokingham 27.4
33= Stoke-on-Trent 27.3
33= Warrington 27.3
35 East Sussex 27.0
36 Westminster 26.9
37= Bromley 26.8
37= Hackney 26.8
37= Wakefield 26.8
40 Tameside 26.7
41 Sunderland 26.3
42 Dorset 25.7
43= Central Bedfordshire 25.6
43= Gateshead 25.6
43= Gloucestershire 25.6
43= Northumberland 25.6
47 Bath and North East Somerset 25.4
48 County Durham 25.3
49= Leeds 25.2
49= Middlesbrough 25.2
49= North Tyneside 25.2
52= Buckinghamshire* 25.1
52= Norfolk 25.1
54= Darlington 24.9
54= Peterborough 24.9
56 Lancashire 24.8
57 Suffolk 24.7
58 Stockport 24.6
59 Devon 24.5
60= Haringey 24.4
60= Newcastle upon Tyne 24.4
60= Nottinghamshire 24.4
60= Sefton 24.4
64 Windsor and Maidenhead 24.3
65 Wirral 24.1
66 Warwickshire 24.0
67 Surrey 23.9
68 Dudley 23.8
69= Bexley 23.7
69= Oxfordshire 23.7
69= Stockton-on-Tees 23.7
72= Liverpool 23.6
72= West Sussex 23.6
74 Manchester 23.4
75 Merton 23.3
76 Bolton 23.1
77= Hertfordshire 23.0
77= Redcar and Cleveland 23.0
77= St. Helens 23.0
80 Blackpool 22.7
81 Hampshire 22.4
82 Bracknell Forest 22.3
83 Nottingham 22.2
84= Sandwell 22.0
84= Tower Hamlets 22.0
86 Kirklees 21.9
87 Kent 21.8
88= Plymouth 21.4
88= York 21.4
90 Wiltshire 21.3
91 Rochdale 21.2
92 Leicester 21.1
93 Solihull 20.9
94 Leicestershire 20.8
95= Havering 20.7
95= Walsall 20.7
97= Essex 20.6
97= Sheffield 20.6
97= Southampton 20.6
100 Coventry 20.5
101= Lincolnshire 20.4
101= Somerset 20.4
103 North Yorkshire 20.2
104 North East Lincolnshire 20.1
105= Medway 19.9
105= Wandsworth 19.9
107 Portsmouth 19.3
108 Doncaster 19.2
109 West Berkshire 18.9
110= Bedford 18.3
110= Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 18.3
110= South Gloucestershire 18.3
110= Torbay 18.3
114 Camden 17.9
115 Luton 17.8
116 Knowsley 17.6
117= Greenwich 17.5
117= Kingston upon Thames 17.5
117= Swindon 17.5
120= Derby 16.4
120= North Lincolnshire 16.4
122 Telford and Wrekin 16.1
123 Wolverhampton 16.0
124 Croydon 15.8
125= Enfield 15.6
125= Waltham Forest 15.6
127= Bradford 15.4
127= East Riding of Yorkshire 15.4
129 Barking and Dagenham 15.1
130 Southend-on-Sea 14.8
131 Hartlepool 14.1
132 Hounslow 13.3
133 Birmingham 12.2
134 Sutton 11.7
135 Thurrock 11.6
136 Newham 11.5
137 Kingston upon Hull, City of 11.4
138= Brent 11.3
138= Hillingdon 11.3
140 Harrow 10.9
141 Redbridge 10.7
142 Barnet 10.0
143 Reading 9.9
144 Milton Keynes 8.1
145 Slough 7.9

* Buckinghamshire: OHID publishes this figure under the former Buckinghamshire county, which had exactly the same boundary as today’s Buckinghamshire Council.

Not published for 6 councils in this group, so not ranked:

  • Cumberland: OHID publishes this measure (2015–18) only for the former Cumbria county. Cumberland was created in 2023 from part of that county, so no figure is published for this council.
  • Hammersmith and Fulham: OHID has not published a 2015–18 figure for Hammersmith and Fulham, so no figure is shown.
  • North Northamptonshire: OHID publishes this measure (2015–18) only for the former Northamptonshire county. North Northamptonshire was created in 2021 from part of that county, so no figure is published for this council.
  • Rutland
  • West Northamptonshire: OHID publishes this measure (2015–18) only for the former Northamptonshire county. West Northamptonshire was created in 2021 from part of that county, so no figure is published for this council.
  • Westmorland and Furness: OHID publishes this measure (2015–18) only for the former Cumbria county. Westmorland and Furness was created in 2023 from part of that county, so no figure is published for this council.
England

English districts (lower tier)

OHID publishes this measure for upper-tier councils only, not for districts. Each district's page shows its county's figure, labelled as the county's.

Scotland

Scottish councils

Period 2021–2024 · Scottish Health Survey

Drinking over 14 units · Scotland · 2021–2024. 32 councils, highest first.

Drinking over 14 units · Scotland · 2021–2024. 32 councils, highest first.
Rank Council %
1 Perth and Kinross 29
2 South Ayrshire 27
3 City of Edinburgh 26
4= East Renfrewshire 25
4= Inverclyde 25
4= North Ayrshire 25
4= Scottish Borders 25
8 Dumfries and Galloway 24
9 East Ayrshire 23
10= East Lothian 22
10= Fife 22
10= Glasgow City 22
10= Moray 22
10= South Lanarkshire 22
10= Stirling 22
16= Aberdeen City 21
16= Argyll and Bute 21
16= East Dunbartonshire 21
16= North Lanarkshire 21
20= Falkirk 20
20= Orkney Islands 20
20= West Dunbartonshire 20
23= Aberdeenshire 19
23= Angus 19
23= Clackmannanshire 19
26= Highland 18
26= Na h-Eileanan Siar 18
26= Shetland Islands 18
29 Midlothian 17
30= Dundee City 16
30= Renfrewshire 16
32 West Lothian 14
Wales

Welsh principal areas

Period 2021/22–2022/23 · Public Health Wales, Public Health Outcomes Framework (National Survey for Wales) · Age-standardised percentages (England and Scotland publish crude percentages).

Drinking over 14 units · Wales · 2021/22–2022/23. 22 councils, highest first.

Drinking over 14 units · Wales · 2021/22–2022/23. 22 councils, highest first.
Rank Council %
1 Monmouthshire 24.2
2 Vale of Glamorgan 20.7
3 Pembrokeshire 20.2
4 Gwynedd 19.8
5 Torfaen 19.2
6 Flintshire 18.4
7 Caerphilly 17.5
8 Cardiff 17.4
9= Ceredigion 16.3
9= Rhondda Cynon Taf 16.3
11 Swansea 16.2
12 Wrexham 15.3
13= Carmarthenshire 14.9
13= Denbighshire 14.9
15 Powys 14.7
16 Merthyr Tydfil 14.6
17 Blaenau Gwent 14.2
18 Conwy 14.1
19 Bridgend 14.0
20 Isle of Anglesey 12.5
21 Newport 12.3
22 Neath Port Talbot 12.1
Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland districts

Adult lifestyle figures in Northern Ireland are published only for the five Health and Social Care Trusts, not for councils. Each district's page shows its trust's figures, labelled as the trust's.

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