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Bath and North East Somerset local authority · 2022 - 24

Drug misuse deaths

6.7

Age-standardised drug misuse deaths per 100,000 people per year.

Joint 54th highest drug misuse death rate of 149 upper-tier authorities

Deaths related to drug misuse · Persons, All ages

England: 5.8 · 2022 - 24

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What this means

The age-standardised death rate from drug misuse in Bath and North East Somerset was 6.7 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024 (35 deaths registered across the three years).

England: 5.8 per 100,000 (same period and age-standardisation). The rank uses published point estimates, not an official ONS league table.

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Source & provenance

Indicator:
Deaths related to drug misuse (ID ONS-drug-misuse-mortality)
Source:
Office for National Statistics, Deaths related to drug poisoning in England and Wales
Area:
Bath and North East Somerset (E06000022), Upper-tier local authority (post Apr 2023)
Period:
2022 - 24; retrieved 2026-10-17 (distinct from reporting period)
Population:
Persons, All ages

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Caveats

  • An annual rate pooled over three years (2022 to 2024) for stability, not a three-year cumulative rate.
  • Drug misuse deaths are a subset of all drug poisoning deaths: they involve drugs controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971. The two sets cannot be summed.
  • Figures are deaths registered, not deaths occurring in each calendar year — coroner inquests can delay registration by months or years.
  • Age-standardised to the 2013 European Standard Population; ONS does not calculate a rate when there are fewer than 10 deaths, and flags rates based on 10 to 19 deaths as low reliability.
  • 95% confidence interval: 4.7 to 9.4 per 100,000.
  • Derived from the published point estimates for 149 upper-tier authorities with data. Exact ties share a rank; 3 areas have this published value. Overlapping confidence intervals mean nearby ranks may not be meaningfully different.
  • Lower means fewer drug misuse deaths after age-standardisation. Not a measure of any individual's risk.

Missing or suppressed values are never shown as zero — every card above passed validation with a real numeric value.