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Huddersfield · Kirklees local authority · 2022 - 24

Drug misuse deaths

6.3

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

Joint 63rd highest drug misuse death rate of 149 upper-tier authorities

Deaths related to drug misuse · Persons, All ages

England: 5.8 · 2022 - 24

healthcards · Kirklees · 2022 - 24

What this means

The age-standardised death rate from drug misuse in Kirklees was 6.3 per 100,000 per year, averaged across 2022 to 2024 (79 deaths registered across the three years).

Huddersfield is a town, not a statistical area: these figures are for Kirklees local authority as a whole (which includes Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley and surrounding towns). Treat them as the wider-area picture, not street-level results.

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:
Kirklees (E08000034), 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: 5.0 to 7.8 per 100,000.
  • Derived from the published point estimates for 149 upper-tier authorities with data. Exact ties share a rank; 2 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.