Standing view · health · Horsham
mixed, held with tentative confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in Horsham have been mixed, with movements in both directions. Adults who smoke was 16.3 in 2023 and recorded as unfavourable against the usual pattern for its year, then 6.23 in 2024 and favourable. Adults who are obese was 25.69 in 2024/25 and deaths before age 75, per 100,000 250.67 in 2025, both unfavourable. Adults who are physically active stood at 73.03 in 2024/25. Three unfavourable readings against one favourable, with the favourable one being the most recent smoking figure, is a divided picture rather than a direction, which is what a tentative view records.
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 Horsham. 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 are obese | 2024/25 | deteriorating |
| Adults who smoke | 2024 | improving |
| Deaths before age 75, per 100,000 | 2025 | deteriorating |
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 | 2024/25 | — |