Standing view · health · Wokingham
mixed, held with tentative confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Deaths before age 75 in Wokingham have been falling, though other measures here have run the other way. Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 was 212.23 in 2025 and adults who are obese 18.54 in 2024/25, both recorded as favourable against the usual pattern for their year. Running against them, adults who are obese was 30.51 in 2023/24 and the suicide rate, per 100,000 8.52 across 2022 to 2024, both unfavourable. Adults who are physically active stood at 75.28 in 2024/25. Two readings each way, with the obesity series reversing.
A view is formed only where the evidence names a figure you can check. Each movement listed as a reason had to be large enough to matter and distinctive in at least one way — unusual against this area's own history, unusual against comparable areas, or sustained over several periods. A movement shared with peers counts for less, because it says something about the country rather than about Wokingham. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who are obese | 2023/24 | deteriorating |
| Adults who are obese | 2024/25 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | improving |
These figures carry no defensible direction of their own: a rising house price is good news to an owner and bad news to someone trying to buy, so we do not score one as an improvement. They are shown because they are part of the picture, and they did not decide the view above.
| Measure | Period | Series |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who are physically active | 2024/25 | — |