Standing view · health · Bromley
deteriorating, held with established confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Adult smoking in Bromley was recorded at 13.2% in 2023 and 6.57% in 2024, a fall of more than half in one year. The suicide rate rose to 7.9 per 100,000 residents over the three years to 2024. A change of that size in a single year of a district-level survey is unusual and nothing here confirms it, while the suicide rate, pooled over three years because annual counts are too small to publish, moved the other way. Two measures pointing opposite ways leaves the direction of health in the borough unresolved.
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 Bromley. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who smoke | 2023 | deteriorating |
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | deteriorating |