Standing view · health · Hackney
deteriorating, held with strong confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in Hackney have been worsening, and the view is held strongly. Adults who are obese was 26.18 in 2024/25 and adults who smoke 15.05 in 2024, both recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for their year. Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 ran the other way, at 356.16 in 2024 and 331.83 in 2025, favourable in both. Adults who are physically active stood at 73.18 in 2023/24. Two measures of behaviour moving the wrong way against two consecutive favourable readings on the early-death rate is a genuinely divided picture, and the behaviour measures carry the heavier movements.
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 Hackney. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who are obese | 2024/25 | deteriorating |
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2024 | improving |
| 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 | 2023/24 | — |