Premature death by borough
Key points
- The rate of premature death is significantly higher in Inner than Outer London.
- The risk of premature death for residents in Newham or Lambeth is twice that of Kensington & Chelsea.
- There is no clear correlation between limiting longstanding illness and premature death. Some areas have very high rates of illness, but only average rates of premature death.
Premature death is defined here as death before the age of 65.
The risk of death, men and women combined, before age 65
What does this map show?
Nine of the 12 boroughs in London with the highest rates of premature death (for men and women combined) are in Inner London.
The pattern is different from that for limiting illness, which followed more of an East/West split. Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Islington have high rates of both long-term illness and premature death. By contrast, Lambeth has a very high rate of premature death but only an average rate of limiting long-standing illness.
The risk of premature death in Newham or Lambeth, 250 per 100,000 people, is about twice that of Kensington & Chelsea.
Data used
ONS 2005–07
All the figures in the graph above are age-standardised, so London's overall younger population is taken into account.
Indicator last updated: 17 May 2009
Other indicators in Hackney
- Child poverty
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Attainment at age 11 by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Other indicators in Islington
- Child poverty
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Premature death by region
- Low-paid residents
- New homeless households by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Other indicators in Kensington and Chelsea
- Child poverty
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Premature death by region
- Overcrowding by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Other indicators in Lambeth
Other indicators in Newham
- Child poverty
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Infant deaths by borough
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Premature death by region
- Low-paid residents
- Low-paid jobs
- Attainment at age 11 by borough
- Attainment at age 16 by borough
Other indicators in Tower Hamlets
- Child poverty
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Premature death by region
- Low-paid residents
- Low-paid jobs
- Attainment at age 11 by borough
- Households in temporary accommodation by borough
- Overcrowding by borough
Other indicators in Working-age adults
- Working Age Poverty
- Poverty in Inner and Outer London
- In-work poverty across England
- Working-age out-of-work benefits by region
- Working age out-of-work benefits by ward
- Working age out-of-work benefits within London
- Income inequality in London compared with other English regions
- Income inequalities within London boroughs
- Pay inequalities within London
- Working-age adults lacking work over time
- Working-age adults lacking work by borough
- Young Adult Unemployment
- Adult ill health
- Adult ill-health by borough
- Low-paid residents
- Low-paid jobs
- Low income and ethnicity in London
- Lacking work by ethnicity
- Not working by country of birth
- Not working by ethnicity and country of birth
- Low pay by ethnicity