Standing view · health · Bolsover
improving, held with strong confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Deaths before the age of 75 in Bolsover fell to 360.76 per 100,000 residents in 2025. Adult smoking fell to 8.32% in 2024, and the suicide rate to 9.11 per 100,000 over the three years to 2024. Three health measures from the same producer moved favourably, which is a more consistent picture than most districts produce. Each is an annual figure with one reading published here, so none shows a run; the pooled suicide rate covers three years precisely because the annual counts are too small to publish on their own.
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 Bolsover. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | improving |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | improving |