Standing view · health · Rossendale
improving, held with strong confidence, formed on 5 October 2026 from movements in 2025.
Health measures in Rossendale have been improving, and the view is held strongly. Adults who smoke was 8.21 in 2024, the suicide rate, per 100,000 9.64 across 2022 to 2024, and deaths before age 75, per 100,000 351.39 in 2025, every one of those recorded as favourable against the usual pattern. Adults who are physically active stood at 64.76 in 2023/24 and 75.04 in 2024/25, children who are physically active at 48.16, and hospital admissions for COPD, aged 35 and over, per 100,000 at 267.42. Three favourable movements with nothing against.
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 Rossendale. 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 |
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 | — |
| Children who are physically active | 2023/24 | — |
| Hospital admissions for COPD, aged 35 and over, per 100,000 | 2023/24 | — |
| Adults who are physically active | 2024/25 | — |