Standing view · health · Rushmoor
mixed, held with tentative confidence, formed on 31 August 2026 from movements in 2025.
Deaths before the age of 75 in Rushmoor fell to 296.42 per 100,000 residents in 2024 and 285.9 in 2025. Adult smoking fell to 7% in 2023, while the suicide rate rose from 12.25 per 100,000 over the three years to 2023 to 12.73 over the three years to 2024. Three of the five readings are favourable, including both mortality figures, and the two unfavourable readings are the overlapping pooled suicide rates.
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 Rushmoor. Where no figure supports a direction we hold no view rather than a hedged one.
| Measure | Period | Direction |
|---|---|---|
| Adults who smoke | 2023 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2021 - 23 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2024 | improving |
| Suicide rate, per 100,000 | 2022 - 24 | deteriorating |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | improving |