Standing view · health · Ealing
improving, held with established confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in Ealing have been improving, and all three readings agree. Adults who smoke was 7.42 in 2024 and deaths before age 75, per 100,000 was 273.05 in the same year, both recorded as favourable against the usual pattern for their year, with the suicide rate, per 100,000 at 8.44 across 2022 to 2024, also favourable. Three measures moving the same way, one of them a pooled three-year figure, is a consistent set for health data published once a year. It is held as established rather than strong because each measure contributes a single reading rather than a run.
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 Ealing. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | improving |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2024 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | improving |