Local health, public health data for small geographic areas
July 2025
The next update to local health, public health data for small geographical areas, will be on the 5 August 2025. The release will include updates to mortality, life expectancy, childhood obesity, general fertility rate, low birth weight babies, fuel poverty, unemployment and long-term unemployment indicators.
Data will only be produced for middle layer super output areas (MSOA), lower-tier and upper-tier local authorities (LTLA and UTLA), regions and England. Data for wards and clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) will be removed from the tool.
We are exploring ways to produce small geographical area data which can be built up into larger areas to make recent data available more quickly. This may mean that it is possible to reinstate indicators for wards at a later date. We also aim to include data for NHS geographies in future releases.
We will be removing some indicators in this release where the data is very old and cannot be updated with a new time point. We will provide links to indicators based on Census 2021.
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April 2025:
Please note the www.localhealth.org.uk website has now been decomissioned as explained in the recent update note from January 2025. All queries to the decomissioned site should be redirected here. This local health fingertips profile contains the same data as the decomissioned tool.
Profile background: Local health is a collection of public health indicators presented at small geographical areas. By breaking the data down to smaller areas, hidden inequalities can highlighted.
A core aim of the Office for Health Improvement and Disparities (OHID) is reducing health inequalities. Local health data can be used to target interventions in areas where there is most need.
Local health allows comparisons between small and large areas, for a single point in time. The data is not designed for time trend analysis.
The data covers areas ranging from middle super output areas (MSOA), electoral wards, local authorities, and England.
The latest local health statistical commentary for the 2022 update: Local health commentary
Further guidance to geographic areas: Office for National Statistics UK geographies page.
Guidance on methods for small geographic areas: The association of public health observatories (APHO) technical briefing 6
Contact us: For enquiries or feedback relating to local health, email PHA-OHID@dhsc.gov.uk