Rankings · Years in poorer health

Years lived in poorer health (life expectancy minus healthy life expectancy), council by council

Life expectancy minus healthy life expectancy: the years people in an area can expect to live, on average, in less than good health. Ranked within each nation and tier, on the average of men and women.

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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.

Years in poorer health is Lifemap’s arithmetic on ONS figures, from the averages of men and women. ONS publishes no confidence interval for it and Lifemap does not calculate one, so these tables make no comparison with the national figure, and small differences between neighbouring councils may not be meaningful. The healthy life expectancy rankings show the figures for men and women with their intervals.

England

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

Period 2022–2024 · Lifemap, from ONS life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (average of men and women)

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · England, upper tier · 2022–2024. 151 councils, highest first. England figure: 20.3 years.

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · England, upper tier · 2022–2024. 151 councils, highest first.
Rank Council Years in poorer health Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy
1 Hartlepool 27.1 78.8 51.7
2 Sandwell 27.0 79.0 52.0
3 Plymouth 26.0 80.6 54.6
4 Wakefield 25.7 79.6 53.9
5 Rochdale 25.3 79.3 54.0
6= Blackpool 25.0 76.4 51.4
6= Redcar and Cleveland 25.0 79.3 54.3
6= Stockton-on-Tees 25.0 80.3 55.3
9 Knowsley 24.9 78.8 53.9
10 Kingston upon Hull, City of 24.8 78.0 53.2
11 Stoke-on-Trent 24.6 78.9 54.3
12= Haringey 24.5 82.8 58.3
12= Wigan 24.5 79.4 54.9
14= Blackburn with Darwen 24.3 78.5 54.2
14= Rotherham 24.3 79.7 55.4
16= Bolton 24.2 79.2 55.0
16= Luton 24.2 80.6 56.4
16= North East Lincolnshire 24.2 79.0 54.8
16= Telford and Wrekin 24.2 80.3 56.1
20 Walsall 24.1 79.7 55.6
21 Westminster 24.0 84.2 60.2
22= Barnsley 23.9 79.2 55.3
22= County Durham 23.9 79.6 55.7
22= Middlesbrough 23.9 78.0 54.1
25 Doncaster 23.8 79.1 55.3
26 Camden 23.7 83.3 59.6
27= St. Helens 23.4 79.3 55.9
27= Tameside 23.4 79.0 55.6
29 Isle of Wight 23.3 82.3 59.0
30 Greenwich 23.2 81.2 58.0
31= Lewisham 23.1 81.3 58.2
31= Nottingham 23.1 78.6 55.5
33= Hounslow 23.0 82.5 59.5
33= South Tyneside 23.0 78.9 55.9
35= Oldham 22.9 79.3 56.4
35= Sheffield 22.9 80.3 57.4
37 Sunderland 22.8 79.2 56.4
38 North Tyneside 22.6 80.1 57.5
39= Derby 22.5 80.1 57.6
39= Halton 22.5 79.1 56.6
41= East Sussex 22.4 82.0 59.6
41= Nottinghamshire 22.4 81.2 58.8
43= Bury 22.3 80.1 57.8
43= Peterborough 22.3 80.0 57.7
43= Portsmouth 22.3 80.4 58.1
46= East Riding of Yorkshire 22.2 81.7 59.5
46= Enfield 22.2 83.2 61.0
46= North Northamptonshire 22.2 80.7 58.5
46= Thurrock 22.2 80.8 58.6
50= Kirklees 22.1 80.0 57.9
50= Lincolnshire 22.1 80.7 58.6
52= Barnet 22.0 84.2 62.2
52= Southampton 22.0 80.3 58.3
54 Liverpool 21.9 78.2 56.3
55 Dudley 21.7 81.0 59.3
56 Bradford 21.6 79.4 57.8
57= Cornwall 21.5 81.6 60.1
57= Hackney 21.5 80.6 59.1
59 Tower Hamlets 21.4 80.8 59.4
60= Birmingham 21.3 79.5 58.2
60= Leicester 21.3 79.2 57.9
60= Northumberland 21.3 81.2 59.9
63 Central Bedfordshire 21.2 82.4 61.2
64= Harrow 21.1 83.9 62.8
64= Medway 21.1 80.7 59.6
64= Salford 21.1 78.8 57.7
64= Sefton 21.1 80.4 59.3
68= Darlington 21.0 79.6 58.6
68= Gateshead 21.0 79.2 58.2
70= Leicestershire 20.8 82.3 61.5
70= Merton 20.8 83.0 62.2
70= North Lincolnshire 20.8 80.0 59.2
73= Barking and Dagenham 20.7 80.0 59.3
73= Bristol, City of 20.7 80.8 60.1
73= Cambridgeshire 20.7 82.6 61.9
73= Islington 20.7 81.2 60.5
73= Manchester 20.7 77.9 57.2
78 York 20.6 81.7 61.1
79= Coventry 20.5 79.6 59.1
79= Derbyshire 20.5 81.0 60.5
79= Lancashire 20.5 80.3 59.8
79= Norfolk 20.5 81.7 61.2
79= Suffolk 20.5 82.4 61.9
79= Wirral 20.5 80.1 59.6
85= Bexley 20.4 81.9 61.5
85= Milton Keynes 20.4 81.6 61.2
87= Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole 20.3 81.8 61.5
87= Ealing 20.3 83.0 62.7
87= Swindon 20.3 81.8 61.5
87= Wolverhampton 20.3 79.2 58.9
91 Cumberland 20.2 79.8 59.6
92= Leeds 20.0 80.7 60.7
92= North Somerset 20.0 82.5 62.5
94 Herefordshire, County of 19.9 81.9 62.0
95= Calderdale 19.8 80.4 60.6
95= West Northamptonshire 19.8 81.6 61.8
97= Brighton and Hove 19.6 81.5 61.9
97= Essex 19.6 82.2 62.6
97= Redbridge 19.6 83.0 63.4
100 Shropshire 19.5 82.2 62.7
101= Cheshire West and Chester 19.4 81.7 62.3
101= Southend-on-Sea 19.4 80.8 61.4
103= Slough 19.3 80.3 61.0
103= Somerset 19.3 82.2 62.9
105= Bedford 19.2 81.8 62.6
105= Newcastle upon Tyne 19.2 79.7 60.5
105= Solihull 19.2 82.3 63.1
105= Torbay 19.2 80.9 61.7
105= Wiltshire 19.2 83.0 63.8
110 Wandsworth 19.1 82.9 63.8
111= Reading 19.0 81.4 62.4
111= Stockport 19.0 81.5 62.5
113= Southwark 18.9 81.6 62.7
113= Staffordshire 18.9 81.7 62.8
115= South Gloucestershire 18.8 82.9 64.1
115= West Sussex 18.8 82.6 63.8
117= Devon 18.7 82.6 63.9
117= Gloucestershire 18.7 82.1 63.4
117= Havering 18.7 82.3 63.6
117= Warwickshire 18.7 81.8 63.1
121 Worcestershire 18.6 81.8 63.2
122= Hampshire 18.5 83.2 64.7
122= Kent 18.5 81.7 63.2
122= Rutland 18.5 83.4 64.9
125 Newham 18.4 81.4 63.0
126 Westmorland and Furness 18.3 81.9 63.6
127 Kensington and Chelsea 18.0 84.7 66.7
128 Brent 17.9 82.8 64.9
129 Surrey 17.8 83.6 65.8
130= Bath and North East Somerset 17.7 83.2 65.5
130= Hillingdon 17.7 82.3 64.6
130= Warrington 17.7 80.4 62.7
133 Dorset 17.5 83.0 65.5
134= Buckinghamshire 17.4 83.5 66.1
134= Hertfordshire 17.4 82.9 65.5
134= Oxfordshire 17.4 83.4 66.0
134= Waltham Forest 17.4 81.9 64.5
138= North Yorkshire 17.3 82.3 65.0
138= Trafford 17.3 81.8 64.5
140= Lambeth 17.2 81.4 64.2
140= West Berkshire 17.2 83.2 66.0
142 Bracknell Forest 17.1 83.2 66.1
143= Cheshire East 16.7 82.0 65.3
143= Kingston upon Thames 16.7 83.7 67.0
145 Bromley 16.2 83.8 67.6
146= Hammersmith and Fulham 15.6 82.3 66.7
146= Wokingham 15.6 84.3 68.7
148 Windsor and Maidenhead 15.5 83.6 68.1
149= Croydon 15.0 82.1 67.1
149= Richmond upon Thames 15.0 84.8 69.8
151 Sutton 14.2 82.7 68.5
England

English districts (lower tier)

ONS’s annual healthy life expectancy series does not cover English districts, so there are no district figures to rank and no years in poorer health to calculate. Each district’s page shows its county’s annual figure, labelled as the county’s, and ONS’s separate census-based estimate for the district itself, which is not comparable with the annual series and is not ranked here.

Scotland

Scottish councils

Period 2022–2024 · Lifemap, from ONS life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (average of men and women)

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Scotland · 2022–2024. 32 councils, highest first. Scotland figure: 19.9 years.

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Scotland · 2022–2024. 32 councils, highest first.
Rank Council Years in poorer health Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy
1 North Lanarkshire 24.5 77.1 52.6
2 West Dunbartonshire 24.3 77.4 53.1
3 North Ayrshire 24.0 77.4 53.4
4 Inverclyde 23.7 77.6 53.9
5 East Ayrshire 23.4 77.3 53.9
6 Clackmannanshire 23.2 78.1 54.9
7 Renfrewshire 22.2 78.7 56.5
8 Dundee City 21.7 77.5 55.8
9 South Ayrshire 21.3 79.1 57.8
10 Argyll and Bute 21.1 80.0 58.9
11 South Lanarkshire 20.7 78.7 58.0
12 Glasgow City 20.6 76.5 55.9
13= Aberdeen City 20.4 79.3 58.9
13= East Lothian 20.4 80.7 60.3
15 Dumfries and Galloway 20.2 79.2 59.0
16= Fife 20.1 79.1 59.0
16= Stirling 20.1 80.4 60.3
18 Midlothian 19.3 79.9 60.6
19 Falkirk 19.2 78.2 59.0
20 West Lothian 18.9 79.1 60.2
21 Highland 18.4 79.9 61.5
22 Scottish Borders 18.2 80.9 62.7
23 Moray 18.1 80.0 61.9
24 East Dunbartonshire 18.0 82.3 64.3
25 Angus 17.3 79.9 62.6
26 Aberdeenshire 16.8 81.2 64.4
27 City of Edinburgh 16.7 80.3 63.6
28 Perth and Kinross 15.1 81.0 65.9
29 East Renfrewshire 14.9 83.2 68.3
30 Na h-Eileanan Siar 14.8 78.8 64.0
31 Shetland Islands 12.1 81.7 69.6
32 Orkney Islands 7.6 81.1 73.5
Wales

Welsh principal areas

Period 2022–2024 · Lifemap, from ONS life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (average of men and women)

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Wales · 2022–2024. 22 councils, highest first. Wales figure: 21.4 years.

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Wales · 2022–2024. 22 councils, highest first.
Rank Council Years in poorer health Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy
1 Merthyr Tydfil 26.5 77.4 50.9
2 Torfaen 26.1 79.6 53.5
3 Rhondda Cynon Taf 23.7 79.2 55.5
4 Newport 23.4 80.0 56.6
5 Carmarthenshire 23.3 80.3 57.0
6 Swansea 22.8 79.9 57.1
7= Blaenau Gwent 22.4 77.5 55.1
7= Bridgend 22.4 80.0 57.6
9 Neath Port Talbot 22.0 79.5 57.5
10 Flintshire 21.9 80.6 58.7
11 Caerphilly 21.4 78.9 57.5
12 Cardiff 20.6 80.4 59.8
13= Conwy 19.9 80.8 60.9
13= Denbighshire 19.9 79.5 59.6
15= Vale of Glamorgan 19.6 82.1 62.5
15= Wrexham 19.6 79.8 60.2
17 Isle of Anglesey 19.5 80.7 61.2
18 Pembrokeshire 19.4 81.0 61.6
19 Monmouthshire 19.1 82.5 63.4
20 Gwynedd 18.7 81.1 62.4
21 Ceredigion 18.2 81.5 63.3
22 Powys 18.0 82.0 64.0
Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland districts

Period 2022–2024 · Lifemap, from ONS life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (average of men and women)

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Northern Ireland · 2022–2024. 11 councils, highest first. Northern Ireland figure: 19.9 years.

Years in poorer health, average of men and women · Northern Ireland · 2022–2024. 11 councils, highest first.
Rank Council Years in poorer health Life expectancy Healthy life expectancy
1 Derry City and Strabane 24.8 79.4 54.6
2 Causeway Coast and Glens 22.6 81.2 58.6
3 Belfast 21.7 78.5 56.8
4 Mid and East Antrim 20.5 81.0 60.5
5= Ards and North Down 19.8 81.7 61.9
5= Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon 19.8 81.1 61.3
7 Fermanagh and Omagh 19.7 81.8 62.1
8 Antrim and Newtownabbey 18.3 80.9 62.6
9 Newry, Mourne and Down 18.0 81.3 63.3
10 Lisburn and Castlereagh 16.5 82.2 65.7
11 Mid Ulster 15.8 81.5 65.7
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