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Not everyone in Warwickshire has the same opportunity to live a long, healthy life. Health inequalities are the unfair and avoidable differences in health that exist between different communities and population groups.
This dashboard helps you explore where these inequalities exist, who is most affected, and how factors such as deprivation, geography and demographics can influence health outcomes across the county.
- Executive summary
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Key insights from the dashboard include:
Warwickshire population
There are 632,207 people in Warwickshire. This is expected to increase by 23.2% by 2047, totalling 748,658 people.
Life expectancy at birth in Warwickshire is 83.6 years for females and 79.9 years for males. Healthy life expectancy in Warwickshire has seen a slight decrease for both females and males. For females, this has decreased from 66.2 years in 2016-18 to 62.9 years in 2022-24, and for males this has decreased from 65.2 years in 2016-18 to 63.3 years in 2022-24.
Warwickshire has 23 LSOAs in the top 20% most deprived in England.
Wider determinants of health
Warwickshire pupils achieved an average Attainment 8 score of 48 compared to the national average of 46. 67.5% of pupils in Warwickshire at state-funded schools achieved grades of 4 or above in English and Maths, compared with 64.8% nationally.
In 2024/25, 16,326 children aged under 16 were estimated to live in a relative low-income family in Warwickshire. This is approximately 14.2% of children compared to the England average of 22.1%.
In 2024, 19,135 school aged children (from nursery to year 13) were eligible for and claiming free school meals at a state funded school in Warwickshire. This was 21.2% of the children at state funded schools, compared to 24.6% nationally.
28,303 emergency food parcels were distributed by Trussel Trust food banks in Warwickshire in 2024/25. 18,266 of these were distributed to adults with 10,037 parcels distributed to children.
10,760 people claimed out of work benefit in Warwickshire in April 2025. This is approximately 2.8% of the working age (16-64) population compared to the England average of 4.2%.
14.2% of households in Warwickshire were estimated to be in fuel poverty in 2023, equating to 36,356 households. This is slightly higher than the England average of 13.2%.
2,549 households in Warwickshire were owed a duty under the Homelessness Reduction Act in 2024/25. This is a rate of 9.8 per 1,000 households compared to the national rate of 13.6.
Health behaviours and lifestyles
9.62% of adults were estimated to be current smokers in Warwickshire in 2024, around 48,370 people. More males smoke than females, with 11.6% of males and 7.5% of females estimated to be smokers.
In 2024/25, 1 in 4 (24.51%) adults in Warwickshire were classified as obese, around 123,246 people, and 41.42% of adults were classified as overweight, around 208,269 people. In the same year, 9.5% of children in reception and 20.4% of children in year 6 were classified as obese.
In 2024/25, 69.6% of adults aged 19+ in Warwickshire were classified as active, around 349,892 people. 19.9% were classified as inactive, around 100,096 people.
In 2024 it is estimated that 245 deaths were caused by alcohol in Warwickshire. 170 of these deaths were males, and 74 were females.
Integrated health and care system
In 2025, 5,189 people aged 65+ in Warwickshire were recorded with a dementia diagnosis. The Warwickshire estimated dementia diagnosis rates is 58.8%, compared to the national rate of 65.6%.
7,860 people were registered on the general practice Severe Mental Illness (SMI) register as of 31st March 2026 in the NHS Coventry and Warwickshire sub-ICB location.
Between 2022-24 there were 160 deaths registered as suicide or of undeterminable injury in Warwickshire. 103 of these were males, and 57 were females.
There were 750 hospital admission in Warwickshire for children aged under 15 caused by unintentional or deliberate injuries in 2024/25, with 315 of these being children under 5.
In 2024, 1.97% of term babies in Warwickshire were born with a low birth weight. This was 105 babies. This is lower than England, where 5.97% of term babies were born with a low birth weight.
There were 665 admissions for intentional self-harm amongst all ages in 2023/24 in Warwickshire. 205 of these admissions were males, and 450 were females.
75% of eligible people in Warwickshire received bowel cancer screening in 2025. This is slightly better than the national proportion of 72.9%.
In 2024/25, 78.5% of adults aged 65+ in Warwickshire received a flu vaccination, higher than the national uptake of 74.9%.
There were 215 hospital admissions in 2024/25 for hip fractures among males aged 65+ and 555 admissions for females aged 65+ in Warwickshire.
Places and communities
In 2020 there was an average distance of 412m from resident’s homes in Warwickshire to the nearest park, playing field, or public garden, compared to the national average of 386m.
90.8% of residential proprieties in Warwickshire in 2020 had access to private outdoor spaces. 95.7% of houses had access, but only 67% of flats.
In 2023/24, 1 in 4 (25%) of adult carers aged 18+ in Warwickshire responding to a survey said they have as much social contact as they want compared to 30% nationally.
The percentage of Warwickshire residents saying they felt anxious yesterday has slowly increased from 14.15% in 2014/15 to 21.16% in 2022/23.
Between September 2020 and Augst 2021 there were 36,899 crimes recorded in Warwickshire, a crime rate of 63.2 crimes per 1,000 population.
In Warwickshire 98.5% of premises were able to receive Superfast Broadband in 2024, compared to 96% across the UK.
In 2025, the median house price in Warwickshire was £315,000 and the median gross annual residence-based earnings was £42,006.